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 Advance, backlash, conflict spilling over into violence…and then re-advance. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026 Clinton deepened Washington’s commitment to the North American project, extending a large loan to Mexico during the 1995 peso crisis to prevent economic instability from spilling over into the United States. — Robert B. Zoellick, Foreign Affairs, 9 Oct. 2026 Higher borrowing costs will eventually force a reduction in credit and spending, weighing on economic activity and potentially spilling over into equity markets, Dalio said. — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026 More than 120 people crammed into the Livingston City Commission meeting, sitting cross-legged on the floor and spilling over into the hallway and adjacent rooms. — ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026 Back in Bielsko-Biała, the exhibition was similarly spilling beyond conventional confines. — Mosha Lundström Halbert, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2026 As the weather cleared, water stopped spilling over an earthen flood-control structure in the area that held without failing. — Mead Gruver, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026 For 21 years this resort on 22 jungle-y acres spilling down a steep ridge to an energetic convergence of rivers outside of Ubud has focused resolutely on wellbeing, and the offerings keep growing. — Kathryn Romeyn, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Sep. 2026 Perhaps like one’s heart crisply split in two, spilling its squelched juices, like the baobab fruit broken open by the stylish monkey in The Lion King, my favorite vintage cartoon. — Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for spilling

Verb

Another manager was found to work from both Alabama and Tennessee without disclosing that information to the Controller’s Office, according to the audit report.

— Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026
The show starts in the year 1985, when Henki Hauge Karlsen, a 28-year-old gay bartender, is fired after disclosing that he is infected with HIV.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of disclosing

Verb

Soon after, Mercury in Scorpio quincunxes Saturn in Aries, revealing where our words, assumptions, or plans do not quite fit the reality in front of us.

— Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 9 Oct. 2026
But the box factory, a commercial condo, was unique in both its openness to testing and revealing the findings to the public.

— Kim Velsey, Curbed, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of revealing

Verb

There’s a lot more competition now, especially with the celebrity beauty brands and the indie or niche brands that are blowing up on TikTok, which is a super popular platform for discovering new beauty products.

— Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
Lu began searching about a year before filming, eventually discovering Wang, a boy of Taiwanese and Italian heritage, through a social media account run by his mother.

— Lin Ying-Hsuan, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of discovering

Verb

In July, Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham brought the debate to the WNBA, telling ESPN trans women shouldn’t be allowed to play in the league.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2026
Firms in Riyadh were telling their employees to work from home tomorrow, and people have been spooked for weeks.

— Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of telling

Verb

That year, the winner was Dutch physical chemist Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff for his work uncovering how chemicals interact with each other in solutions.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026
This format travels across the country uncovering uplifting, emotional and often surprising stories of pets, their owners and the veterinary professionals dedicated to their care.

— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of uncovering

Verb

And Jeremy Allen White is Jeff Horwitz, the Wall Street Journal tech reporter with whom Haugen collaborates on an explosive series of articles informally titled The Facebook Files, exposing the toxic culture behind the company’s stratospheric reach.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026
Prier said the city was failing residents and exposing itself to a lawsuit by not providing adequate court access.

— Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2026