Spill Over

Definition: Spill Over

Spill Over

Verb

1. Overflow with a certain feeling; "The children bubbled over with joy"; "My boss was bubbling over with anger".

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Spill Over

Books

• The World in Transition: Post Soviet Spill Over (reference)

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Business

In 1998, the Peruvian economy faced a sharp recession and increasing unemployment due to spill over from the Asian, Russian and Brazilian shocks and the severe El Nino weather phenomenon of that year. The Peruvian gross domestic product (GDP) declined 0.4 percent and statistics from the Labor Ministry estimated unemployment rate at about 8 percent and underemployment (earning under US$ 160 per month) at over 40 percent. (references)

Economic History

Ireland

While there is some potential for spill over into the Republic of Ireland, such an occurrence is unlikely. (references)

Georgia

More recently, there have been concerns that the conflict in neighboring Chechnya could spill over into this country. (references)

Guatemala

Fears that the conflictive situation in the Mexican border state of Chiapas could spill over into Guatemala have not been realized. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "spill over": spill over oneself ♦ spill over with. Additional references.

Albanian

turret (flush, spill over oneself). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاض (deluge, flood, flow, flow over, inundate, overfill, overflow, run over, stream). (various references)

Chinese 

汎濫 (flood; spill over the banks, spread without restricton). (various references)

Czech

polít se (spill over oneself). (various references)

German

überschwappen (slop, slop over, splash over), überlaufen (boil over, defection, desert, flooding, overcrowded, overflow, overrun, seize, to overflow). (various references)

Greek 

ξεχείλισμα (outpouring, overflow). (various references)

Hungarian

leönti magát (spill over oneself). (various references)

Indonesian

melimpahkan (bestow, cause something ti spill over, give something generously, shower). (various references)

Italian

versarsi, riversarsi (fall, pour, spill, surge). (various references)

Pig Latin

illspay overay

Russian 

обливаться (spill over oneself), проигрывать (lose a round, spill over into). (various references)

Spanish

desbordarse (flood, lap over, overflow, run over, slop). (various references)

Turkish

taşmak (boil over, brim over, flow, get over, gush, overbrim, overflow, pour forth, pour out, run over, slop over, swell, swim, well over). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: overspill, spillover.

-1 letter: overslip, slipover.

-2 letters: plosive, plovers, pollers, repolls, spiller, spoiler, villose.

-3 letters: ervils, lisper, livers, livres, lopers, lories, lovers, oilers, olives, oriels, pelvis, perils, pilose, pliers, plover, poiser, poleis, polers, polies, poller, prills, proles, proves, reoils, repoll, rilles, siller, silver, sliver, sloper, solver, splore, vipers, vireos, voiles.

-4 letters: ervil, evils, iller, liers, lisle, liver, lives.

+1 letter: overspills, spillovers.