overspill
noun
over·spill
ˈō-vər-ˌspil 
1
: the act or an instance of spilling over
2
chiefly British
: the movement of excess urban population into less crowded areas
Examples of overspill in a Sentence
an overspill into nearby towns
a new town built to absorb London's overspill
Recent Examples on the Web
Local conflicts were made more lethal by a second factor: the overspill of the decades-long Chadian civil war, which began in 1966.
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Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2023
This mid-rise, medium coverage, seamless underwear easily absorbed 5 teaspoons of liquid in our tests without any overspill.
—Cai Cramer, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2023
This pick comes in a whopping 45 sizes and four colors, and does a fantastic job of shaping breasts without any overspill.
—Daley Quinn, Health, 6 Feb. 2023
So far this bathing season, Surfers Against Sewage has logged 654 notifications of sewage overspill from 171 locations.
—Julia Buckley, CNN, 27 Aug. 2022
The region of Al Wathba is home to a beautiful oasis-like wetland reserve created, so the story goes, by an overspill from a water treatment facility.
—Barry Neild, CNN, 23 June 2022
The room and the overspill viewing area in the lobby were at capacity.
—Nicole Carr, ProPublica, 16 June 2022
The zoonotic origin of SARS-CoV-1 has been firmly established by research that also showed that the bat sarbecoviruses pose a clear and present danger of pandemic overspill from bats to humans.
—Stephan Lewandowsky, Scientific American, 16 Feb. 2022
To my right, a frozen waterfall of black lava paved a steep slope—apparently, this was overspill from a lava field farther uphill.
—Heidi Julavit, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2023
This mid-rise, medium coverage, seamless underwear easily absorbed 5 teaspoons of liquid in our tests without any overspill.
—Cai Cramer, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2023
This pick comes in a whopping 45 sizes and four colors, and does a fantastic job of shaping breasts without any overspill.
—Daley Quinn, Health, 6 Feb. 2023
So far this bathing season, Surfers Against Sewage has logged 654 notifications of sewage overspill from 171 locations.
—Julia Buckley, CNN, 27 Aug. 2022
The region of Al Wathba is home to a beautiful oasis-like wetland reserve created, so the story goes, by an overspill from a water treatment facility.
—Barry Neild, CNN, 23 June 2022
The room and the overspill viewing area in the lobby were at capacity.
—Nicole Carr, ProPublica, 16 June 2022
The zoonotic origin of SARS-CoV-1 has been firmly established by research that also showed that the bat sarbecoviruses pose a clear and present danger of pandemic overspill from bats to humans.
—Stephan Lewandowsky, Scientific American, 16 Feb. 2022
To my right, a frozen waterfall of black lava paved a steep slope—apparently, this was overspill from a lava field farther uphill.
—Heidi Julavit, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
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“Overspill.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overspill. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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