English-Portuguese translations for spill

  • derramarNo domingo e na segunda-feira seguintes, dias 21 e 22 de Setembro, foi a vez de a ETA, organização separatista basca, derramar sangue em três ataques. On Sunday 20 and Monday 21 September it was the turn of ETA, the Basque separatist organisation, to spill blood in three attacks.
  • entornarQuando os veículos comerciais circulam nas rotundas o combustível tem tendência a entornar e as motocicletas que seguem logo atrás derrapam na superfície gordurosa que o gasóleo provoca. As these commercial vehicles go round roundabouts the fuel tends to spill out and motorbikes following closely behind skid on the greasy surface that diesel leaves.

Definition of spill

  • To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour
  • To spread out or fall out, as above
  • To drop something that was intended to be caught
  • To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste
  • To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste
  • To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed
  • To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay
  • To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain
  • To reveal information to an uninformed party
  • of a knot). To come undone
  • A mess of something that has been dropped
  • A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire
  • A slender piece of anything
  • One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground
  • A small sum of money
  • A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of

Examples

  • I spilled some sticky juice on the kitchen floor.
  • Some sticky juice spilled onto the kitchen floor.
  • He spilled his guts out to his new psychologist.
  • The bruise is from a bad spill he had last week.

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