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
I have always suspected that I was taken into their secret without their ordinary precautions; and that for a while they were a little dubious for fear that they had spilt the milk of secrecy.
From Vandemark's Folly by Herbert Quick
But Jessie and I could eat, and Tom too,—after he had spilt a cup of tea and a pitcher of water, and knocked a piece of pie under the table.
From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, January 1878, No. 3 by Mary Mapes Dodge
