Crossword clues for spilled
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spill \Spill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spilled, or Spilt; p. pr. & vb. n. Spilling.] [OE. spillen,sually, to destroy, AS. spillan, spildan, to destroy; akin to Icel. spilla to destroy, Sw. spilla to spill, Dan. spilde, G. & D. spillen to squander, OHG. spildan.]
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To destroy; to kill; to put an end to. [Obs.]
And gave him to the queen, all at her will To choose whether she would him save or spill.
--Chaucer.Greater glory think [it] to save than spill.
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To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste. [Obs.]
They [the colors] disfigure the stuff and spill the whole workmanship.
--Puttenham.Spill not the morning, the quintessence of day, in recreations.
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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.
Note: Spill differs from pour in expressing accidental loss, -- a loss or waste contrary to purpose.
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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.
And to revenge his blood so justly spilt.
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(Naut.) 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.
Spilling line (Naut.), a rope used for spilling, or dislodging, the wind from the belly of a sail.
--Totten.
Wiktionary
Usage examples of "spilled".
When he did what I told him and was no longer touching me at all, the anger filled me up and spilled over my skin like heat.
The blood red of his hair spilled over his shoulders so that it framed the unbelievable whiteness of his body.
His hair cascaded around him and spilled over the side of my body, pooling into my lap, covering Damian like a blanket, if a blanket could flow like liquid over a body.
As if the world had caught fire and become heat, and heat was golden like the color yellow had spilled out and covered everything.
I buried my face against his shoulder, and that hot, hot tightness spilled out of my eyes, and my lips.
He shook his head, as he pulled his hair free of the collar, so it spilled like a surprised red splash against all that blue.
The cat screamed through my head, and that scream spilled out my mouth.
The pressure built, built, until my body was thick with it, full of it, and then it spilled out.
I understood why, because it was as if my soul spilled up into my lips, as if the very essence of me was a taste upon my lips.
It was probably the most spilled blood that any of them had ever seen.
Graham let out a long, long sigh, and sort of spilled himself back up onto the seat.
The seat belt unsnapped, and he spilled me to the seat with him on top.
Until it was as if my lower body became heat and weight, nothing but the building pleasure, and then finally at the height of one of those rough strokes, all that heat and weight spilled over me, through me, washing like heat across my body.
It was 1:00 in the morning, but when Requiem opened the door, the sound of many people in a small space, having a very good time, spilled out around us.
He laid his head on the floor, and the ponytail of his auburn hair spilled out around him like a cloak.