spill

IPA: spˈɪɫ

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

(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.
(transitive) To drop something that was intended to be caught.
To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
(obsolete, intransitive) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
(transitive) To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
(transitive, slang, obsolete) To cause to be thrown from a mount, a carriage, etc.
To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
(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.
(transitive, Australian politics) To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
(transitive, intransitive) To reveal information to an uninformed party.
(of a knot) To come undone.

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