spill over
Flow past edges
Spill over describes liquid exceeding a container's capacity and flowing out: The bathtub spilled over onto the floor.
More often figurative—when something extends beyond its original boundaries or affects adjacent areas: Violence from the conflict spilled over into neighboring countries.
Enthusiasm, anger, or effects spill over when they spread beyond their source.
The noun spillover describes such excess or extension.
overflow
Exceed capacity and spill
permeate · diffuse · radiate · disperse · cascade · proliferate · propagate · bleed · leak · escape
overflow
Exceed capacity and spill
engulf · swamp · overrun · brim · saturate · deluge · inundate · outpour · exceed · surplus
- ragerage, fury, wrath, enraged, furious
- escalationescalation, escalate, ratchet up, worsen, intensify
- going too faroverdo, overstepping, crossing the line, overstep, cross the line