Definition of Overspilled

1. overspill [v] - See also: overspill

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overspilled

overspeculation
overspeeding
overspend
overspender
overspenders
overspending
overspendings
overspends
overspent
overspice
overspiced
overspices
overspicing
overspill
overspill estate
overspilled (current term)
overspilling
overspills
overspilt
overspin
overspins
oversplit
oversplits
overspoke
overspoken
oversprang
overspray
overspray surface texture
oversprays
overspread

Literary usage of Overspilled

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Although rockfalls were less frequent than in 1969, several produced dust clouds that overspilled the caldera rim 20 months after the collapse. 31. ..."

2. Marching on Tanga: (with General Smuts in East Africa) by Francis Brett Young (1917)
"Sunrise found us crossing yet another of those open plains, in later days too rare, where the river had overspilled itself in the rainy season, ..."

3. The Mega-City in Latin America by Alan Gilbert (1996)
"It overspilled the 200-square-kilometre area of the Federal Capital as early as 1869 (figure 6.1) and most of the city's subsequent expansion has taken ..."

4. Truth Will Out: An Emergence from Chaos and Subterfuge Into Light and by Seymour Supercern (1912)
"The ant-mounds of the tropic climes, requiring months to build, Are ruined, demolished in an instant, crushed and overspilled. The honey-hive, mellifluous ..."

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