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
He gathered up the mess he had spilt and descended sorrowfully to the main deck to discuss me with his friends among the crew.
From A Tramp's Notebook by Morley Roberts
The last time was the worst, when he had spilt the basin of water, just as he was trying to make himself decent.
From The Golden House by Sarah S. (Sarah Schoonmaker) Baker
