SPILLING Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

spilling

verb

present participle of spill

as in disclosing

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 spilling One evening a month, roughly a dozen men and women convene at the Panera Bread in Campbell, filling the dining room’s largest table and spilling into nearby booths. — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 22 Oct. 2026 But like many fascinating reality-TV subjects of the early 2000s, the family was eventually doomed to years of public estrangement, disagreements, and tension spilling offscreens. — Isabella Albaig, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2026 This is especially important with fruit pies, to prevent the bubbling fruit juices from spilling over the edge of the pan onto your oven floor. — Melissa Weller, Bon Appetit Magazine, 21 Oct. 2026 Torrential rain has pushed all three waterways higher for days, spilling them over their banks in northeastern Argentina, southern Paraguay and western Uruguay. — Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026 The latest spike in fuel prices is harder to stomach than the one earlier this year as businesses and consumers have less capacity to absorb the shock, while fresh price data show inflation is spilling over beyond energy. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026 Yet increasingly, the misrepresentations are spilling into broader industry discourse. — Clayton Davis, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026 For days, fears grew across Europe this may spill into the real world of the US limiting military aid and intelligence for Ukraine, and in the past 48 hours, that might be spilling into reality. — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026 Rodriguez said her priorities include advocating for more support for senior citizens and improving traffic conditions in Galt, particularly traffic spilling over from nearby Highway 99. — Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 12 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for spilling

Verb

Doing so would not require disclosing every detail of Hurts' private medical history.

— Bobby Burack OutKick, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026
For now, the researchers aren’t disclosing the exact formulation.

— Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of disclosing

Verb

The extra baggage negates the weightlessness, revealing a more flawed and earthbound iteration of the band.

— Gabriel Szatan, Pitchfork, 18 Oct. 2026
The seemingly perfectly healthy and always active youngster from Georgia suffered a massive seizure, with scans later revealing three brain tumors.

— Patrick Snell, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of revealing

Verb

The preacher was arrested in 2023 after police received a tip-off, and weeks later authorities began uncovering bodies in shallow graves in the Shakahola Forest near the coast in southeastern Kenya.

— Jefferson Kahinju Reuters, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026
That is followed by one focused on exploring conventional notions of beauty by uncovering the unexpected draw of unpleasant scents with Naïla Hamayed, Givaudan’s fragrance evaluator.

— Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of uncovering

Verb

According to Queen, the last time the water dropped this low, exposing part of Old Highway 6, was in the 1980s.

— Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
The disruption hit systems used for payments, money transfers, deliveries, property searches, and remote court hearings, exposing how a failure in one cloud region can ripple across much of the digital economy.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026