verb / noun

spill

SPIL/spɪl/

An uncontrolled escape from a supporting container.

Rice spills over the table's edge as the bumped tub tips.

An accidental elbow bump tips an open tub of dry rice, sending grains over a kitchen table edge while the person reflexively tries to catch it.

Etymology

Spillan meant to destroy or waste, including to kill. The shift to letting liquid fall out may have passed through shedding blood, linking destruction with liquid lost.

In context

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we don't want to cut that open because sometimes if they have feed in it that'll spill everywhere and it just makes more of a mess

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More examples

I spilled rice on the counter while filling the jar.
Workers cleaned up the oil spill near the storage tank.
He took a spill from his bike on the gravel.

Forms

spill · spills · spilled · spilling

spillage noun — Liquid or loose material accidentally spilled.

Similar words

leak: Suggests escape through a hole, crack, or faulty seal.
overflow: Specifies liquid escaping because a container becomes too full.
fall: Describes downward movement generally, not necessarily from something being ridden.