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What does spill over mean?

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Verb
  1. To enter into another zone by way of accident or overcrowding; to overflow.
  2. (intransitive) Of an infectious disease, to spread from one species of animal to another and particularly to humans.
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Once you have the rocks in place, plant some ivy and creeping violets throughout, so that it will spill over the rocks.
Thomas plays Baz Wainwright, a troubled lad who has serious problems at home that spill over into school.
Terraced soil or stacked stones provide a place for the water to spill over.
The dreck, it appears, continues to spill over on this side of the Atlantic.
Changes on the microscopic level eventually spill over into the macroscopic level.
Some Georgians are also worried that civil wars in neighboring nations might spill over into their country.

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