spilling

noun — 2 senses

spilling

noun
1

The act of dropping or spreading out of a fluid or particles.

  • Such a notion identified woman with breaches in boundaries, with lack of shape or definition, with openings and exudings and spillings forth.2005, Margaret E. Owens, Stages of Dismemberment, page 58:
2

Figuratively The action of spreading out in the manner of a fluid.

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