Usually means: Accidental release of liquid substance.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word spill:

General (32 matching dictionaries)
  1. spill: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. spill, spill: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spill, spill: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. spill: Collins English Dictionary
  5. spill: Vocabulary.com
  6. Spill, spill: Wordnik
  7. spill: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. spill: Wiktionary
  9. spill: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. spill: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. spill: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. spill: Dictionary.com
  13. spill: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. spill: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Spill (UK band), Spill (audio), Spill: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Spill: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. spill: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. spill: Rhymezone
  19. spill: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. spill: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. SPILL: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. spill: Free Dictionary
  23. spill: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. spill: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. spill: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Cigar Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  3. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. spill: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. spill: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. spill: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. spill, spill, spill, spill: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. spill: Urban Dictionary
  3. Spill: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Spill: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See spillable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
verb:  (intransitive) To spread out or fall out, as above.
verb:  (intransitive, of a crowd or people within a crowd) To overflow out of a designated area.
verb:  (transitive) To drop something that was intended to be caught.
verb:  To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
verb:  (intransitive) To overflow or flow out, over or off something.
verb:  (transitive) To cause or flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
verb:  (transitive, slang, obsolete) To cause to be thrown from a mount, a carriage, etc.
verb:  To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
verb:  (nautical) 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.
verb:  (transitive, Australian politics) To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To reveal information to an uninformed party.
verb:  (of a knot) To come undone.
verb:  (transitive) To express (something), especially repeatedly or floridly; to be expressed.
noun:  (countable) A mess of something that has been dropped.
noun:  A fall or stumble.
noun:  A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.
noun:  A slender piece of anything.
noun:  A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
noun:  A metallic rod or pin.
noun:  (mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
noun:  (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
noun:  (obsolete) A small sum of money.
noun:  (Australian politics) A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill.

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