noun
verb
Etymology
Origin of overspill
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Will Capper, from Winchester got a call from his partner Lauren on 1 August saying that "the manhole cover in the garden had started to overspill."
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2024
Park officials said Sunday that the Lower and North Pines Campgrounds and the Housekeeping Camp will be shut over fears that waterways could overspill their banks.
From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2023
The room and the overspill viewing area in the lobby were at capacity.
From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2022
The zoonotic origin of SARS-CoV-1 has been firmly established by research that also showed that the bat sarbecoviruses pose a clear and present danger of pandemic overspill from bats to humans.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 18, 2022
On the edge of the field stood a little pump house, and a willow tree flourished beside it, fed by the overspill of water.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
I hate that feeling of overspilled momentum when cornering and braking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
He explained that a sewage pipe that runs through their back garden had overspilled, got into the home and "soaked through under the flooring".
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2024
His virtuosity inevitably overspilled the constraints of any one style or role, but Emmons — like his instrument — might have been at his very best when paired with a great country singer.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2015
Shrubs that had been tidy topiaries had grown into great shaggy trees, and bowers of blooming vines had overspilled their neat beds to riot up the walls and columns and drape over the railing.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
It needed nothing to finish Joe with the good people of Canaan; had it needed anything, the trial of Happy Fear would have overspilled the necessity.
From The Conquest of Canaan by Tarkington, Booth
Wondrous, overspilling yet always recognizably human, this novel is remarkable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
As the plume rose upward, it billowed out to form an "umbrella cloud," with overspilling material falling down onto it and oscillating around a layer of neutral buoyancy.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 21, 2023
My screenshots folder on my phone is overspilling, out of sight only by the grace of technology, organized in a neat grid of squares that sit three across.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2021
A long fifth set, a bee delay, or yet another period without the puck going in the net—all can lead to a game overspilling its programming window by hours.
From Slate ● Jun. 21, 2013
A carnivorous animal living on a straight meat diet, he was in full flower, at the high tide of his life, overspilling with vigor and virility.
From The Call of the Wild by London, Jack
His growth was more obvious than ever, as his hindquarters overspilt her arms.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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