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spike, n. 1. nail, skewer, rivet, bolt, pin, peg, treenail, dowel, toggle; stake, pike; stud, prong, projection.
-v. 2. pierce, impale, penetrate, prick, stick, spit, pike, lance.
3. frustrate, foil, check, stay, halt, end; thwart, balk, circumvent, hinder, obstruct, deter; defeat, checkmate, beat, eliminate, stamp out, crush, destroy, eradicate; nullify, cancel, annul, void.
4. discard, throw out or away or overboard, jettison, Si. deep-six, Inf. put in or relegate to the circular file, file; eliminate, SI. kill, scotch; forget, drop, lose.
spill, v. 1. pour, pour out; overflow, run over, well over, brim over; slosh, slop.
2. Slang, reveal, divulge, disclose, make known, Inf. leak; confess, turn state's evidence, SI. rat, SI. squeal, SI. sing, SI. spill the beans, SI. spill one's guts.

-n. 3. Informal, fall, tumble, Inf. cropper, Inf. header, SI. flop, spin, v. 1. revolve, rotate, turn, twirl, whirl, Archaic. trundle; gyrate, reel, circle, circumvolve, circumrotate; wheel, swivel, pivot, pirouette.
2. develop, evolve, unfold; narrate, tell, relate, recount; produce, fabricate, invent, concoct, make up.
3. protract, prolong, prolongate, extend, lengthen, elongate, stretch out, draw out, drag out; continue, perpetuate, sustain, maintain, keep up, keep going, keep alive, dwell on, linger on; expand, enlarge, enlarge upon, amplify; pad, fill out.
-n. 4. ride, drive, Sunday drive, Inf. joy ride, Inf. whirl, SI. tool; (all usu. in a motor vehicle) trip, quick trip, run, journey, peregrination, excursion, tour; jaunt, outing, junket.
spine, n. 1. backbone, spinal column, vertebrae, Anat. spina, Anat. dorsum, (of animals) chine, (of animals) ridge, Bot. rachis.
2. resolution, determination, firmness; fortitude, hardihood, pluckiness, gameness; pluck, mettle, grit, stamina. Inf. intestinal fortitude, Inf. spunk, Si. guts, SI. moxie.
spineless, adj. 1. Zool. invertebrate; limp, flaccid, lax, slack, infirm; rubbery.
2. weak, weak-willed, feeble, without a will of one's own; irresolute, indecisive, infirm of purpose, wishy-washy.
3. pusillanimous, timid, timorous, fearful, afraid,
afraid of one's own shadow; unmanly, fainthearted, weakhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, without backbone, with a backbone of banana, Inf. chicken-
hearted, Inf. chicken-livered, Inf. pantywaist, Inf. yellow, Inf. yellow-bellied, SI. candy-assed.
spiny, adj. 1. spiniferous, spinous, Chiefly Biol.
spinose, spiculose, Zool., Bot. spiculate, acanthoid; thorny, briery, thistly, prickly.
2. spinelike; pointed, spiked, barbed, tined, pronged, horned.
3. troublesome, difficult, hard to handle.
spiral, n. 1. helix, volute, gyre, spire; coil, curl, curlicue, ringlet, corkscrew, whorl.
-adj. 2. helical, volute, coiled, corkscrew, tur
binate, turbinal, cochleate.
-v. 3. wind, twist, twine, twist and turn, sinuate; swirl, sworl, whirl; wreathe.
4. (all of prices, costs, etc.) increase, rise, mount, ascend, go up; accelerate, soar, skyrocket.
spire, n. 1. steeple, belfry, Archit. fldche.
2. peak, pinnacle, tip, point, top, tiptop, apex, acme, vertex; crown, crest, summit.
3. sprout, shoot, spear, blade, Bot. acrospire.
spirit, n. 1. animating principle, vital spirit, pneuma, breath of life, anima, life; consciousness, soul, psyche; mind, intellect, Gk. Philos, nous; reason, understanding, intelligence; heart, self, ego, inner self.