spilling
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To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
โI spilled some sticky juice on the kitchen floor.โ
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To spread out or fall out, as above.
โSome sticky juice spilled onto the kitchen floor.โ
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To drop something that was intended to be caught.
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To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
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To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
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To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
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To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
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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.
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(Australian politics) To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
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To reveal information to an uninformed party.
โHe spilled his guts out to his new psychologist.โ
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(of a knot). To come undone.
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The act of dropping or spreading out of a fluid or particles.
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The action of spreading out in the manner of a fluid.
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