"spill over" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spills over",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spilling over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spilled over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spilled over",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spilt over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spilt over",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "past2": "spilt over"
      },
      "expansion": "spill over (third-person singular simple present spills over, present participle spilling over, simple past and past participle spilled over or spilt over)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "kind": "other",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to enter into another zone by way of accident or overcrowding; to overflow"
      ],
      "id": "en-spill_over-en-verb-JIGEOKh9",
      "links": [
        [
          "zone",
          "zone"
        ],
        [
          "accident",
          "accident"
        ],
        [
          "overcrowd",
          "overcrowd"
        ],
        [
          "overflow",
          "overflow"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "(of an infectious disease) to spread from one species of animal to another and particularly to humans"
      ],
      "id": "en-spill_over-en-verb--Lj~5AsU",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) (of an infectious disease) to spread from one species of animal to another and particularly to humans"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "undercurrents of popular discontent spilled over into outright revolt",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 June 29, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Strikes set to escalate as RMT issues rallying call”, in RAIL, number 960, page 6:",
          "text": "That's the warning from RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch, who has predicted that industrial action could soon spill over into other sectors of the economy, following the failure of last-ditch talks to avert the largest rail strike since 1989.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 October 8, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 1-0 Manchester City”, in BBC Sport:",
          "text": "There was indiscipline, too, from Kovacic, who was fortunate to only be shown a yellow card for a poor challenge on Odegaard yet still followed it up almost immediately with another on Rice.\nThe indiscipline spilled over at the final whistle too as a clutch of City players including Haaland and Kyle Walker were involved in a heated exchange with a number of Arsenal's backroom staff.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(of a bad emotion, situation, etc.) to reach a climax"
      ],
      "id": "en-spill_over-en-verb-mufDdff5",
      "links": [
        [
          "climax",
          "climax"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) (of a bad emotion, situation, etc.) to reach a climax"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spill over"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"over\"",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spills over",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spilling over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spilled over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spilled over",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spilt over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spilt over",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "past2": "spilt over"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to enter into another zone by way of accident or overcrowding; to overflow"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "zone",
          "zone"
        ],
        [
          "accident",
          "accident"
        ],
        [
          "overcrowd",
          "overcrowd"
        ],
        [
          "overflow",
          "overflow"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(of an infectious disease) to spread from one species of animal to another and particularly to humans"
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) (of an infectious disease) to spread from one species of animal to another and particularly to humans"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "undercurrents of popular discontent spilled over into outright revolt",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 June 29, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Strikes set to escalate as RMT issues rallying call”, in RAIL, number 960, page 6:",
          "text": "That's the warning from RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch, who has predicted that industrial action could soon spill over into other sectors of the economy, following the failure of last-ditch talks to avert the largest rail strike since 1989.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 October 8, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 1-0 Manchester City”, in BBC Sport:",
          "text": "There was indiscipline, too, from Kovacic, who was fortunate to only be shown a yellow card for a poor challenge on Odegaard yet still followed it up almost immediately with another on Rice.\nThe indiscipline spilled over at the final whistle too as a clutch of City players including Haaland and Kyle Walker were involved in a heated exchange with a number of Arsenal's backroom staff.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(of a bad emotion, situation, etc.) to reach a climax"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "climax",
          "climax"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) (of a bad emotion, situation, etc.) to reach a climax"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spill over"
}