Spill over meaning
Spill over is a phrasal verb with 2 meanings. One of them is for an activity or situation to begin affecting another group or circumstance, usually in an unwanted manner.
- Past simple
- spilled over
- Past participle
- spilled over
- -ing form
- spilling over
What spill over means
affect another situationB2
For an activity or situation to begin affecting another group or circumstance, usually in an unwanted manner
The political dispute spilled over into neighbouring countries.
1 more meaning of spill over is in the Retite app, with an example and a translation into your language.
More meanings in the appSimilar phrasal verbs
With over: run over, take over, go over to, tick over, change over, do over, get over, give over, give something over to something/someone, give yourself over to.
Common questions
What does spill over mean?
It has 2 meanings. One of them is for an activity or situation to begin affecting another group or circumstance, usually in an unwanted manner. The other one, with an example and a translation into your language, is in the Retite app.
What is the past tense of spill over?
Spilled over, which is also its past participle.
Meanings and examples are written by Retite. The meanings follow Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Levels are based on the CEFR-J Wordlist and set by Retite.
