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verb

ˈspil How to pronounce spill (audio)
Definition of spillnext
as in to reveal
to make known (as information previously kept secret) the actor's butler spilled the secret to a tabloid for $40,000

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spill

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noun

as in fall
the act of going down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily she tripped over the toy and had a nasty spill on the stairs

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Recent Examples of spill
Verb
Water across a walkway might be coming from a leak residents have complained about before, or someone could have spilled something only a few minutes earlier. — Emma Clapp, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026 When high tides and king tides hit Naples, water spills over the seawalls in some spots nearly two feet deep, flooding sidewalks and threatening homes. — Lauren Pozen, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
Noun
Riles says this is mainly because the trays can be pretty shallow, and this means spills can happen everywhere from the countertops to the fridge. — Bianca Lambert, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2026 Coffee spills, muddy shoes, pet mishaps, and everyday messes don’t have to turn into decorating disasters. — Ethan Stone october 9, Idaho Statesman, 9 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for spill
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spill
  1. reveal
  2. fall
  3. disclose
  4. tumble
  5. discover
  6. stumble
  7. tell
  8. slip
Verb
  • The extra baggage negates the weightlessness, revealing a more flawed and earthbound iteration of the band.
    — Gabriel Szatan, Pitchfork, 18 Oct. 2026
  • When scandals are revealed, teams and leagues with close ties to gambling companies are accused of hypocrisy.
    — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of reveal
Noun
  • There was a time when fall was hospitality’s quiet season—the quiet lull between summer beach trips and ski season escapades, the time when back to school and back to work meant people largely stayed home.
    — Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Here's how style experts and celebrities style the brown boots trend for fall, starting with timeless pairings and making our way up to trickier combos.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of fall
Verb
  • The start of initial production marks a manufacturing milestone for the cxMHR, but Leonardo DRS has not disclosed production quantities, customer orders, delivery schedules, or a timeline for operational deployment in its announcement.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Variety understands that Mediawan paid on the lower end of tens of millions of dollars, although Capton declined to disclose the exact figure or financial terms.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of disclose
Noun
  • The company’s parks suffered a 15% year-over-year tumble in foot traffic in the April to June period, according to Citi analysts.
    — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026
  • When Waits sings about the woman’s raincoat and suitcase, Duke answers with a twinkling tumble of notes.
    — Al Shipley, SPIN, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of tumble
Verb
  • They are discovered well beyond the bounds of the strategic map, where the winds shift, the old answers sink, and the pilot must find the way by dead reckoning.
    — Jeff DeGraff, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
  • After a five-and-a-half-year absence, Tom Cotton has recently discovered a state called Arkansas.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of discover
Noun
  • Sometimes there were big stumbles — notably episodes where characters played by Jane Krakowski and Jon Hamm were in blackface.
    — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The question is what the second act looks like, and whether the category Dyson tried to create survives the stumble.
    — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of stumble
Verb
  • Some economists, including researchers at the Minneapolis Fed, argue the data don’t tell such a clean story.
    — Molly A. Wallace, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The company agrees with skeptics like the NFL that justices must eventually opine on whether states and tribes should regulate its sports event contracts as sports bets, a Supreme Court litigator working with Kalshi told Semafor.
    — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of tell
Noun
  • Peter Beck, Rocket Lab’s founder and CEO, identified a manufacturing defect as the reason for Neutron’s latest schedule slip.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026
  • And both are attuned to the moments when Evans lets his aggravation slip.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
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“Spill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spill. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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