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 we never will acknowledge that the blood the South has spilt, Was shed defending what we deemed a cause of wrong and guilt.
From Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental by Various
Old Dutchy is laying it off because someone has spilt water on the main-hatch, where a sail is spread out, ready for his work.
From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by Bone, David W.
