spill
/spɪl/ noun C2- Any thing that has been spilled; the resulting mess.
- A fall or stumble. · The bruise is from a bad spill he had last week.
- A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask'; a spile.
- A metallic rod or pin.
- A spillikin.
- A splinter caught in the skin.
- One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
- The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
Plural spills
Phrasal verbs and expressions
Other matches
Learn spill in real texts
With a free account, hover any word in the library for its meaning, hear it read aloud, save words for review timed to your memory, and see how much of each book you already know.