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overspill

US/ˈoʊvɚˌspɪl/

overspill noun: that which spills over.

Noun

overspill (countable and uncountable, plural overspills)

  1. That which spills over.
    • New towns were constructed to accommodate overspill from established cities.
    • It is known that means of using this end of the former NLR and Broad Street station to take an overspill of traffic from Liverpool Street have been under backroom study for some time.1964 July, “News and Comment: The Broad Street-Richmond line”, in Modern Railways, page 17

Verb

overspill (third-person singular simple present overspills, present participle overspilling, simple past and past participle overspilled or overspilt)

  1. To spill over, to overflow, to spill out of.
    • Further, Coventry's prosperity and rapid growth was threatening that it as well as Birmingham would require to overspill its boundaries.2002, Urlan Wannop, Regional Imperative: Regional Planning and Governance in Britain, page 93
    • Calandra added more, until the oil threatened to overspill her palm.2004, Delilah Devlin, Pirate's Desire, page 202

overspill meaning in Tamil

overspill in Tamil

உச்ச வரம்புக்கு மேற்பட்ட

Forms of overspill

Noun
pluraloverspills
Verb
third-person singular presentoverspills
present participleoverspilling
past participleoverspilled
pastoverspilled
past participleoverspilt
pastoverspilt

Origin of overspill

From over- + spill.

Words formed from overspill

Phrases with overspill

Questions about overspill

What does overspill mean?
Overspill means that which spills over.
What is overspill in Tamil?
Overspill in Tamil is உச்ச வரம்புக்கு மேற்பட்ட. See Overspill meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is overspill?
Overspill can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce overspill?
Overspill is pronounced /ˈoʊvɚˌspɪl/ (US).
What is the plural of overspill?
The plural of overspill is overspills.

Words near overspill in the dictionary

  1. overspice
  2. overspiced
  3. overspices
  4. overspicing
  5. overspicy
  6. overspill
  7. overspill estate
  8. overspill estates
  9. overspilled
  10. overspilling
  11. overspills

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: overspill (page history and authors); overspill (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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