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  • verb To enter into another zone by way of accident or overcrowding; to overflow.
  • verb intransitive Of an infectious disease, to spread from one species of animal to another and particularly to humans.

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  • verb overflow with a certain feeling
  • verb be disgorged

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  • the main idea spills over into the second paragraph.

    January 31, 2012