spill
verb (used with object)
to cause or allow to run or fall from a container, especially accidentally or wastefully.
had spilt
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past perfectof spill.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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There are moon-shaped crescents, cosmic starbursts and wiggling worms, arranged in an indiscriminate muddle, as if someone had spilt a bowl of spaghetti shapes across the map.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 13, 2018
For all the emotion she invests in the line, you'd think someone had spilt a drop of Merlot on her Axminster.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2013
There was the feeling of impersonal plenty when I saw a boll of cotton whose cup had spilt over and straggled its white fleece toward the earth.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
Caraquet said it was on wolf bounties,—which was another thing that had set me thinking about the bottle I had spilt on my clothes.
From The La Chance Mine Mystery by Gage, George W.
Even in the freezing evening air the smell that came from that smashed bottle was beyond anything on earth or purgatory, excepting the stuff I had spilt over myself at Skunk's Misery.
From The La Chance Mine Mystery by Gage, George W.
