Clues for the word "SPILL"

We've had 87 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 131 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on October 03, 2025.

Definition of spill

n. - A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
n. - A slender piece of anything.
n. - A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
n. - A metallic rod or pin.
n. - A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.
n. - One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
n. - A little sum of money.
v. t. - To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
v. t. - To destroy; to kill; to put an end to.
v. t. - To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste.
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.
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.
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.
v. i. - To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
v. i. - To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted.