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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..

Thwack :: Thwack (v. t.) To fill to overflow.

Overfull :: Overfull (a.) Too full; filled to overflowing; excessively full; surfeited.

Backwater :: Backwater (n.) An accumulation of water overflowing the low lands, caused by an obstruction..

Rice :: Rice (n.) A well-known cereal grass (Oryza sativa) and its seed. This plant is extensively cultivated in warm climates, and the grain forms a large portion of the food of the inhabitants. In America it grows chiefly on low, moist land, which can be overflowed..

Overwhelm :: Overwhelm (v. t.) To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; to crush; to bury; to oppress, etc., overpoweringly..

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..

Inundation :: Inundation (n.) An overspreading of any kind; overflowing or superfluous abundance; a flood; a great influx; as, an inundation of tourists..

Deluge :: Deluge (v. t.) To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.

Flowage :: Flowage (n.) An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows..

Tule :: Tule (n.) A large bulrush (Scirpus lacustris, and S. Tatora) growing abundantly on overflowed land in California and elsewhere..

Overfullness :: Overfullness (n.) The state of being excessively or abnormally full, so as to cause overflow, distention, or congestion; excess of fullness; surfeit..

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..

Outswell :: Outswell (v. t.) To swell beyond; to overflow.

Tear :: Tear (n.) A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids..

Cataclysm :: Cataclysm (n.) An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.

Overflown :: Overflown (p. p.) of Overfl.

Redound :: Redound (v. i.) To be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow.

Overcome :: Overcome (v. t.) To overflow; to surcharge.

Float :: Float (v. t.) To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.

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