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spilt over

spilt over is the simple past and past participle of spill over.

Meaning of spill over

Verb

spill over (third-person singular simple present spills over, present participle spilling over, simple past and past participle spilled over or spilt over)

  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
  3. (intransitive) (of a bad emotion, situation, etc.) to reach a climax
    • undercurrents of popular discontent spilled over into outright revolt

Questions about spilt over

What is spilt over the simple past and past participle of?
Spilt over is the simple past and past participle of spill over.

Words near spilt over in the dictionary

  1. spilt milk
  2. spilt one's guts
  3. spilt one's guts out
  4. spilt one's seed
  5. spilt out
  6. spilt over
  7. spilt the beans
  8. spilt the tea
  9. spilter
  10. spilters
  11. spilth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spilt over (page history and authors); spill over (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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