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Definitions of spill
n. - A bit of wood split off; a splinter. ²
n. - A slender piece of anything. ²
n. - A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile. ²
n. - A metallic rod or pin. ²
n. - A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc. ²
n. - One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground. ²
n. - A little sum of money. ²
v. t. - To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay. ²
v. t. - To destroy; to kill; to put an end to. ²
v. t. - To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste. ²
v. t. - To suffer to fall or run out of a vessel; to lose, or suffer to be scattered; -- applied to fluids and to substances whose particles are small and loose; as, to spill water from a pail; to spill quicksilver from a vessel; to spill powder from a paper; to spill sand or flour. ²
v. t. - To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed, or suffer to be shed, as in battle or in manslaughter; as, a man spills another's blood, or his own blood. ²
v. t. - 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. ²
v. i. - To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste. ²
v. i. - To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted. ²

The word "spill" uses 5 letters: I L L P S.

Direct anagrams of spill:
  pills

Words formed by adding one letter before or after spill (in bold), or to illps in any order:
r -   prills   s -   spills  

Shorter words found within spill:
ill   ills   is   li   lip   lips   lis   lisp   pi   pill   pis   psi   si   sill   sip   slip  

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