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Definition spill

Etymology

From Middle English spillen, from Old English spillan, spildan (“to kill, destroy, waste”), from Proto-Germanic *spilþijan? (“to spoil, kill, murder”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to sunder, split, rend, tear”).

Cognate with Dutch spillen (“to use needlessly, waste”), French gaspiller ("to waste, squander" < Germanic), Bavarian spillen (“to split, cleave, splinter”), Danish spille (“to spill, waste”), Swedish spilla (“to spill, waste”), Icelandic spilla (“to contaminate, spoil”).

Verb

spill (third-person singular simple present spills, present participle spilling, simple past and past participle spilled or spilt)

1. (transitive) To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
2. (intransitive) To spread out or fall out, as above.
3. (transitive) To drop something that was intended to be caught.
4. To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
5. (obsolete) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
6. To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
7. To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
8. (nautical) To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
9. (transitive, Australian politics) To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
10. (transitive) To reveal information to an uninformed party.

Noun

spill (plural spills)

1. (countable) A mess of something that has been dropped.
2. A fall or stumble.
3. A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.
4. A slender piece of anything.
   1. A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
   2. A metallic rod or pin.
5. (mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
6. (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
7. (obsolete) A small sum of money.
8. (Australian politics) A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill.

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