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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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Despite the new grown-up demeanour, some aspects of the girl still spill over.
The dreck, it appears, continues to spill over on this side of the Atlantic.
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.
The lava flow managed to spill over the cooled igneous rock but what little did was diverted away from the town.
Changes on the microscopic level eventually spill over into the macroscopic level.

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