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spilling

adjective as in pouring

noun as in betrayal

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"They need migrant workers to keep up with development, but Haiti's violence is spilling over to Turks and Caicos."

From BBC

More than two months after its release, the film's momentum hasn't slowed – in fact, it's spilling into cinemas.

From BBC

The Ellingwoods continued watching the nail-biting game with subtitles, but as the match became more and more exciting, customers began spilling over to their side of the bar.

In “Volcano,” an underground volcano erupts under MacArthur Park, sending rivers of lava through the subway system and spilling out from the La Brea Tar Pits onto Wilshire Boulevard’s Museum Row.

Its storefront, painted with polka dots and decorated with giant butterflies, sits like a cheery oasis in Gustine’s four-block downtown, a riot of green spilling from the planter boxes out front.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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