Definition of overflow

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Overflow (v. t.) To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm..

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Submersion :: Submersion (n.) The act of submerging, or putting under water or other fluid, or of causing to be overflowed; the act of plunging under water, or of drowning..
Overbrim :: Overbrim (v. i.) To flow over the brim; to be so full as to overflow.
Overwash :: Overwash (v. t.) To overflow.
Cataclysm :: Cataclysm (n.) An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.
Overflow :: Overflow (v. i.) To be superabundant; to abound.
Flood :: Flood (v. t.) To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley..
Thwack :: Thwack (v. t.) To fill to overflow.
Flood :: Flood (v. i.) A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation..
Flush :: Flush (n.) A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes..
Slop :: Slop (v. t.) To cause to overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; to spill..
Overswell :: Overswell (v. t. & i.) To swell or rise above; to overflow.
Slop :: Slop (v. i.) To overflow or be spilled as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; -- often with over..
Abundance :: Abundance (n.) An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number..
Inundate :: Inundate (v. t.) To fill with an overflowing abundance or superfluity; as, the country was inundated with bills of credit..
Submerge :: Submerge (v. t.) To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to flood; to drown.
Reclaim :: Reclaim (v. t.) Hence: To reduce to a desired state by discipline, labor, cultivation, or the like; to rescue from being wild, desert, waste, submerged, or the like; as, to reclaim wild land, overflowed land, etc..
Overfullness :: Overfullness (n.) The state of being excessively or abnormally full, so as to cause overflow, distention, or congestion; excess of fullness; surfeit..
Redound :: Redound (v. i.) To be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow.
Deluge :: Deluge (v. t.) To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.
Exuberance :: Exuberance (n.) The state of being exuberant; an overflowing quantity; a copious or excessive production or supply; superabundance; richness; as, an exuberance of joy, of fancy, or of foliage..
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