Definition of overflow

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Overflow (v. i.) To be superabundant; to abound.

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Flush :: Flush (n.) A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes..
Redound :: Redound (v. i.) To be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow.
Overflowed :: Overflowed (imp. & p. p.) of Overflo.
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..
Inundation :: Inundation (n.) The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds..
Teem :: Teem (v. i.) To be full, or ready to bring forth; to be stocked to overflowing; to be prolific; to abound..
Water Meadow :: Water meadow () A meadow, or piece of low, flat land, capable of being kept in a state of fertility by being overflowed with water from some adjoining river or stream..
Backwater :: Backwater (n.) An accumulation of water overflowing the low lands, caused by an obstruction..
Flush :: Flush (v. t.) To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer..
Scaturient :: Scaturient (a.) Gushing forth; full to overflowing; effusive.
Overwash :: Overwash (v. t.) To overflow.
Overfull :: Overfull (a.) Too full; filled to overflowing; excessively full; surfeited.
Salt :: Salt (n.) Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass..
Generous :: Generous (a.) Characterized by generosity; abundant; overflowing; as, a generous table..
Intervale :: Intervale (n.) A tract of low ground between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n., 7..
Merry :: Merry (superl.) Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive.
Fen :: Fen (n.) Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; moor; marsh..
Overflow :: Overflow (v. i.) To be superabundant; to abound.
Inundate :: Inundate (v. t.) To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town..
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..
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