spill
Betekenis (Engels)
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- To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
- To spread out or fall out, as above.
- To overflow out of a designated area.
- To drop something that was intended to be caught.
- To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
- (obsolete) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
- To overflow or flow out, over or off something.
- To cause or flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
- (obsolete,slang) 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.
- 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.
- To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
- To reveal information to an uninformed party.
- To come undone.
- To express (something), especially repeatedly or floridly; to be expressed.
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Synoniemen
let fall
well out
be spilled
gush out
push down
slop over
be scattered
bite out
drain off
pour away
pour over
sow in
fall out of
be spilt
to fall
tump over
let flow
transudation seeping
disclose
full to the brim
piece of wood
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Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/spɪl/
Etymologie (Engels)
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”).
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