English Dictionary

spill

/spɪl/

verb

(transitive) To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour. / (intransitive) To spread out or fall out, as above.

I accidentally spill my coffee on the table.

意味（1）

(transitive) To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.

I spilled some sticky juice on the kitchen floor.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To spread out or fall out, as above.

Some sticky juice spilled onto the kitchen floor.

意味（3）

(transitive) To drop something that was intended to be caught.

That should have been that, but Hart caught a dose of the Hennessey wobbles and spilled Adlene Guedioura's long-range shot.

意味（4）

To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.

They [the colours] disfigure the stuff and spill the whole workmanship.

意味（5）

(obsolete, intransitive) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.

That thou wilt suffer innocence to spill.

意味（6）

(transitive) To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.

to revenge his Blood, ſo juſtly ſpilt,

to revenge his Blood, ſo juſtly ſpilt, What is it leſs then to partake his guilt?

意味（7）

(transitive, slang, obsolete) To cause to be thrown from a mount, a carriage, etc.

Then, not thirty feet beyond, a sudden panicky lunge to the side by his horse spilled him from the saddle.

意味（8）

To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.

And all the others pavement were with yvory spilt

意味（9）

(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.

意味（10）

(transitive, Australian politics) To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.

意味（11）

(transitive) To reveal information to an uninformed party.

‘You wanted to know where we were going. Follow me. I’m going to spill it.’

意味（12）

(of a knot) To come undone.