Decrease and Spill

decrease

A change downward.
- usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
- synonyms: lessening, drop-off
A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
- synonyms: decrement
The amount by which something decreases.
- synonyms: decrement
The act of decreasing or reducing something.
- synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

Decrease in size, extent, or range.
- usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
- synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
Make smaller.
- usage: "He decreased his staff"
- synonyms: lessen, minify

(v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
(v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
(n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
(v.) The wane of the moon.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

spill

Liquid that is spilled.
- usage: "clean up the spills"
A channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction.
- synonyms: spillway, wasteweir
The act of allowing a fluid to escape.
- synonyms: spillage, release
A sudden drop from an upright position.
- usage: "he had a nasty spill on the ice"
- synonyms: tumble, fall

Cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container.
- usage: "spill the milk"; "splatter water"
- synonyms: slop, splatter
Flow, run or fall out and become lost.
- usage: "The milk spilled across the floor"; "The wine spilled onto the table"
- synonyms: run out
Cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over.
- usage: "spill the beans all over the table"
- synonyms: shed, disgorge
Pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities.
- usage: "shed tears"; "spill blood"; "God shed His grace on Thee"
- synonyms: shed, pour forth
Reveal information.
- usage: "If you don't oblige me, I'll talk"; "The former employee spilled all the details"
- synonyms: talk
Reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail. ).

(n.) A metallic rod or pin.
(n.) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
(v.i.) To be destroyed, ruined or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
(n.) A small roll of paper or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.
(v.t.) To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
(n.) A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
(v.i.) To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted.
(n.) A little sum of money.
(n.) A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
(v.t.) To destroy; to kill; to put an end to.
(v.t.) To suffer to fall or run out of a vessel; to lose or suffer to be scattered; -- applied to fluids and to substances whose particles are small and loose; as, to spill water from a pail; to spill quicksilver from a vessel; to spill powder from a paper; to spill sand or flour.
(n.) A slender piece of anything.
(v.t.) To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste.
(v.t.) To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled or to lessen the strain.
(v.t.) To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed or suffer to be shed, as in battle or in manslaughter; as, a man spills another's blood or his own blood.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary