spilt

verbslop, drop
verbreveal

Synonyms for spilt

verb slop, drop

Antonyms for spilt

Word Origin & History

Old English spillan "destroy, kill," variant of spildan, from Proto-Germanic *spelthijanan (cf. Old High German spildan "to spill," Old Saxon spildian, Old Norse spilla "to destroy," Middle Dutch spillen "to waste"), from PIE *spel- "to split, break off" (cf. Middle Dutch spalden, Old High German spaltan "to split;" for further cognates, see spoil). Related: Spilled; spilling.

Sense of "let (liquid) fall or run out" developed mid-14c. from use of the word in reference to shedding blood (early 12c.). Intransitive sense is from 1650s. Spill the beans recorded by 1910 in a sense of "spoil the situation;" to cry for spilt milk (usually with negative) is attested from 1738.

Example Sentences for spilt

At dinner she shook and jerked and spilt things worse than ever.

It was this monster that had spilt the pool of blood drying on the floor, near the door.

He gulped down a mouthful, and some of it was spilt on his shirt-front.

A minie drew some blood from me—not much, and spilt in a good cause.

Just then Jowler dropped the basket and spilt her huckleberries.

I pray you to pardon this blot; I spilt the ink, kneeling in passion; what would you have?

The Frenchman helped; and, being so happy, in cors, spilt the gravy.

The tin can was still round his neck, but the dinner had been spilt in the struggle.

There followed a clink of glasses, and some of the wine was spilt.

And now James seems to have thought that enough blood had been spilt.