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
And if thy lips my sober cup refuses, For ruddier drops the purple grape has spilt, We can sing, sipping in alternate verses, Thy drink and mine, like Corydon and Thyrsis.
From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
Table, you want your face washed—your master has spilt his grog last night—there now, you look as handsome as ever.
From Poor Jack by Frederick Marryat
