spill

Significat (anglès)

1. To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
2. To spread out or fall out, as above.
3. To overflow out of a designated area.
4. To drop something that was intended to be caught.
5. To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
6. (obsolete) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
7. To overflow or flow out, over or off something.
8. To cause or flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
9. (obsolete,slang) To cause to be thrown from a mount, a carriage, etc.
10. To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
11. 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.
12. To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
13. To reveal information to an uninformed party.
14. To come undone.
15. To express (something), especially repeatedly or floridly; to be expressed.

pour

pour out

let fall

well out

be spilled

gush out

push down

slop over

be scattered

bite out

dispread

drain off

pour away

pour over

sow in

fall out of

be spilt

to fall

splash out

tump over

let flow

transudation seeping

disclose

full to the brim

piece of wood

Freqüència

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/spɪl/

From Middle English spillen, from Old English spillan, spildan (“to kill, destroy, waste”), from Proto-West Germanic *spilþijan, from Proto-Germanic *spilþijaną (“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 spilde (“to spill, waste”), Swedish spilla (“to spill, waste”), Icelandic spilla (“to contaminate, spoil”).