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unspilling

unspilling is the present participle and gerund of unspill.

Meaning of unspill

Verb

unspill (third-person singular simple present unspills, present participle unspilling, simple past and past participle unspilled or unspilt)

  1. (transitive) Hypothetically, to undo the spilling of.
    • If the coffee is currently being spilled, I can't unspill it. And here's the kicker. You can't change the future, because it hasn't happened yet.2016, David Zelman, If I Can, You Can: Transformation Made Easy

Adjective

unspilling (not comparable)

  1. Not spilling.
    • Anvil's whiskey glass sailed, unspilling, straight up. It turned over at the top and streaked down, raining redeye on Anvil's twitching form.c. 1995, L. Ron Hubbard, Under the Diehard Brand

Questions about unspilling

What does unspilling mean?
Unspilling means not spilling.
What is unspilling the present participle and gerund of?
Unspilling is the present participle and gerund of unspill.
What part of speech is unspilling?
Unspilling is an adjective.

Words near unspilling in the dictionary

  1. unspiking
  2. unspiky
  3. unspill
  4. unspillable
  5. unspilled
  6. unspilling
  7. unspills
  8. unspilt
  9. unspin
  10. unspined
  11. unspinnable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unspilling (page history and authors); unspill (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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