Lexic.us

Definition of Spill over

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

2. Verb. Be disgorged. "The crowds spilled out into the streets"

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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