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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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Changes on the microscopic level eventually spill over into the macroscopic level.
The lava flow managed to spill over the cooled igneous rock but what little did was diverted away from the town.
Lime green sweet potato vine, white-flowered bacopa, and small-leafed creeping Jenny spill over the urn's edges.
Some Georgians are also worried that civil wars in neighboring nations might spill over into their country.
She just wanted to get out of there and she could feel the tears welling up in her eyes, threatening to spill over onto her cheeks.
Several melees broke out on the field as the game threatened to spill over into all out violence.

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