spill
verb (used with object)
to cause or allow to run or fall from a container, especially accidentally or wastefully.
has spilt
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present perfectof spill (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Sightings of boars trotting along the streets have become so commonplace in some neighbourhoods of the Italian capital that the problem has spilt over into campaigning for Rome’s mayoral election.
From Reuters ● Sep. 23, 2021
And this conversation has spilt on to social media and India is in the grip of, to borrow a phrase from Nobel laureate VS Naipaul, a "million mutinies now".
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2017
In mid-November, a rust-colored mountain of barley looks as if it has spilt out from the silos at Moree's southern end.
From Time Magazine Archive
I see somebody has spilt some paint on the floor of the bicycle shed.
From Mike by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
He has dung down a' the bits o' pigs, too—the only thing we had left to haud a soup milk—and he has spilt the hatted hit that was for the Master's dinner.
From The Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott
