SPILING Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

spiling

verb

present participle of spile

as in stoppling

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Made from high-quality, sustainable materials, Crushgrind mills are designed to last for years without clogging, rusting, or wearing out.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 July 2026
Mbappe struggled with limited vision and sweat clogging around his eyes.

— Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 5 July 2026

Definition of clogging

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This time, the smiles, the hugs, the radiant joy filling Atlanta Stadium could have powered the entire state of Georgia.

— Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
Tacori skipped the orderly line of a tennis necklace, arranging mixed-cut diamonds in two close rows with smaller stones filling the narrow spaces between them.

— Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 7 July 2026

Definition of filling

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Dugan's case marked the first time that a state judge in Wisconsin went to trial on charges of obstructing immigration agents.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
Dugan’s case was a first for Wisconsin Dugan’s case marked the first time that a state judge in Wisconsin went to trial on charges of obstructing immigration agents.

— Claire Savage, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026

Definition of obstructing

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The nine-hole golf course opened in 1908, the same year the city’s first outdoor swimming pool at the park was created by damming up Tyler Creek.

— Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2026
Responders are establishing diking and damming measures to divert the potential fluid down a grade into a commercial holding area.

— Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2026

Definition of damming

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In May, Darwin filed a preliminary injunction, temporarily blocking the state from imposing the new rules.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
The other thing that’s happening is that the federal government is affirmatively blocking state and local investigators from conducting their own separate probes.

— Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 9 July 2026

Definition of blocking

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Since babies explore with their mouths, the balls could become a choking hazard.

— Sari Hitchins, Parents, 6 July 2026
The brand has received no reports of injury or death but did warn that consuming the metal and plastic parts could cause choking, lacerations or blockages in the gastrointestinal tract.

— Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 6 July 2026

Definition of choking

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The signature ingredient, however, is the brand’s plum complex—the sister founders of Le Prunier use materials from their family’s century-old plum farm—to support collagen production, skin barrier health, and hydration without congesting pores.

— Emily Orofino, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2025
America does not need more trucks congesting roads in large population centers.

— Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 24 Oct. 2025

Definition of congesting

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From Earth’s vantage point—right along the faraway magnetar’s equator—the wobbling disk acted like a film projector’s shutter, periodically occluding our view of the dead star supercharging SN 2024afav.

— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2026
For example, if a ball rolled behind some occluding object and temporarily disappeared from view, the model generated an error when the ball didn’t reappear from behind the object in future frames.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 3 Oct. 2025

Definition of occluding

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