spilled
Because it is a word with a single syllable, spilled is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofspilled
- To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
Example: "I spilled some sticky juice on the kitchen floor."
- To spread out or fall out, as above.
Example: "Some sticky juice spilled onto the kitchen floor."
- 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.
- (Australian politics) To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
- To reveal information to an uninformed party.
Example: "He spilled his guts out to his new psychologist."
- (of a knot). To come undone.
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