SPILLED Synonyms: 82 Similar and Opposite Words

spilled

verb

variants also spilt

past tense of spill

as in revealed

to make known (as information previously kept secret) the actor's butler spilled the secret to a tabloid for $40,000

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Recent Examples of spilled The disputes later spilled into the courts, with players challenging suspensions and the rival organizations pursuing competing legal claims. — Matthew Tan, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2026 Too much ink has been spilled trying to convince home cooks that there are definitive pairings between sauces and pasta shapes. — Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 Nov. 2026 In the Paradise Village community, residents walked and drove through water inches deep as high water from a local lake spilled into the roadway. — Anna McAllister, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026 The frustration from the economic crisis has repeatedly spilled into the streets. — ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026 Abrams opted to go full go vampire, donning a long black wig and fake blood that spilled onto her lace nightgown costume. — Arushi Jacob, Footwear News, 2 Nov. 2026 Much ink has been spilled over Judd’s commitment to permanent installation in Marfa, but the architecture makes clear that permanence was never a matter of fixing an arrangement once and for all. — Julian Rose, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026 Much ink has been spilled this election cycle about the competitive races that could determine which party controls Congress. — Barbara Sprunt, NPR, 1 Nov. 2026 The tensions between Washington and Havana have spilled over into public forums at the United Nations. — Farnoush Amiri, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for spilled

Verb

The German luxury accessories brand has become the first luxury fashion brand to join Whatnot, the company revealed on Tuesday.

— Kanika Talwar, Footwear News, 3 Nov. 2026
Preliminary information, according to MDSO, revealed that the victim was involved in a verbal dispute with multiple unknown suspects.

— Ana Maria Soler, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of revealed

Verb

Nearly 2 pounds of the meteorite was discovered in the Sahara in Mali in 2022, and most is now held by a museum in Maine.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2026
However, this remains a conceptual demonstration, not a system that has discovered an extraterrestrial transmission.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of discovered

Verb

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, beyond highlighting that Digital Dust’s founders, Federica Zucchi and Alessandra De Siena, together with CEO Matteo Zucchi and the agency’s entire team, will remain on-board.

— Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 30 Oct. 2026
Meta last week disclosed a quarter of negative free cash flow for the first time since 2012.

— Lucy Bayly, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of disclosed

Verb

Season broth with salt and freshly ground black pepper and simmer, uncovered, until flavors come together and broth is rich tasting, about 20 minutes.

— Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Oct. 2026
The program, named Operation Janus, initially uncovered three hundred and fifteen thousand instances of missing fingerprint data in immigration files, which were flagged for further investigation.

— Rozina Ali, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of uncovered

Verb

Perhaps most intriguingly, the researchers also saw signs that the rock had been exposed to water during its evolution, a find detailed in work published this summer in Science Advances.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2026
Holding Liberty to 145 rushing yards showed promise, but allowing seven touchdowns on seven red-zone trips exposed a significant weakness.

— Alejandro Hernandez, Miami Herald, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of exposed

Verb

At the Vatican a day earlier, Leo told the teams from alma mater Villanova and fellow Catholic university Notre Dame that in matters of sport, the pontiff was neutral.

— Andrew Dampf, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2026
In other cases, developers have told towns that decade-old ideas for enormous retail development of open parcels simply aren’t practical anymore.

— Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 1 Nov. 2026