Overflow

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  • intransitive verb. To flow or run over the top, brim, or banks.
  • intransitive verb. To be filled beyond capacity, as a container or waterway.
  • intransitive verb. To have a boundless supply; be superabundant. synonym: teem.
  • intransitive verb. To flow over the top, brim, or banks of.
  • intransitive verb. To spread or cover over; flood.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to fill beyond capacity.
  • noun. The act of overflowing.
  • noun. Something that flows over; an excess.
  • noun. An outlet or vent through which excess liquid may escape.
  • noun. A condition in which a calculation produces a unit of data too large to be stored in the location allotted to it.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To flow or spread over; inundate; cover with water or other liquid; flood.
  • To fill and run over the edge or brim of.
  • To deluge; overwhelm; cover; overrun.
  • To overcome with drink; intoxicate.
  • To flow over; swell and run over the brim or banks.
  • To be so full that the contents run over the brim; be more than full.
  • noun. A flowing over; an inundation.
  • noun. The excess that flows over; hence, superabundance; exuberance.
  • noun. Specifically, that form or style of verse in which the sense may flow on through more than a couple of lines, and does not necessarily terminate with the line.
  • noun. Same as overflow-basin.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A flowing over, as of water or other fluid; an inundation.
  • noun. That which flows over; a superfluous portion; a superabundance.
  • noun. An outlet for the escape of surplus liquid.
  • noun. a meeting constituted of the surplus or overflow of another audience.
  • intransitive verb. To run over the bounds.
  • intransitive verb. To be superabundant; to abound.
  • transitive verb. To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm.
  • transitive verb. To flow over the brim of; to fill more than full.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The spillage resultant from overflow; excess.
  • verb. To fill beyond the limits of a container or system.
  • verb. To exceed the available numeric range.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity
  • verb. flow or run over (a limit or brim)
  • verb. overflow with a certain feeling
  • noun. a large flow
  • Word Usage
    "The term overflow is used here to describe near-bottom flow of cold, dense (σ 27.8)."
    cross-reference
    abound  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    boil  flow  flowing  seethe  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Au  Beau  Bio  Bo  Bordeaux  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    drain  flood  inlet  inundation  outburst  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    overflown  
    verb-form