Definition of Spill over

1. Verb. Overflow with a certain feeling. "My boss was bubbling over with anger"

Exact synonyms: Bubble Over, Overflow
Generic synonyms: Boil, Seethe

2. Verb. Be disgorged. "The crowds spilled out into the streets"
Exact synonyms: Pour Out, Spill Out
Generic synonyms: Pour, Pullulate, Stream, Swarm, Teem

Definition of Spill over

1. Verb. To enter into another zone by way of accident or overcrowding; to overflow. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spill Over

spiled
spiles
spilikin
spilikins
spiling
spilings
spilite
spilites
spilitic
spill
spill blood
spill ink
spill one's guts
spill out
spill over (current term)
spill the beans
spillable
spillage
spillages
spilled
spilled the beans
spiller
spillers
spillet fishing
spilliard fishing
spillikin
spillikins
spilling
spilling the beans

Literary usage of Spill over

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1908)
"This spill-over was probably due to a separate disturbance. ... A single very severe spill-over occurred at pole 563 on phase C. No other spill-over ..."

2. Sport in the Crimea and Caucasus by Clive Phillipps-Wolley (1881)
"... of poet-travel—Bullying a station-master—Armenian Pro- testant*—Russian telegraph service—In miserable plight—A spill over a precipice — Refitting our ..."

3. Sport in the Crimea and Caucasus by Clive Phillipps-Wolley (1881)
"... of post-travel—Bullying a station-master—Armenian Protestants—Russian telegraph service—In miserable plight—A spill over a precipice — Refitting our ..."

4. The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary by Edward Tregear (1891)
"... to overflow, overflowing ; to spill over, &c. ; hoo-manini, to pour out water by little and little. Cf. mini, to spill over, to pour out, ..."

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