Definition of overflow

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Overflow (n.) A flowing over, as of water or other fluid; an inundation..

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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..
Deluge :: Deluge (n.) A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.)..
Swim :: Swim (v. i.) To be overflowed or drenched.
Overflow :: Overflow (v. i.) To be superabundant; to abound.
Flush :: Flush (n.) A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes..
Overflow :: Overflow (v. t.) To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm..
Superfoetation :: Superflux (n.) Superabundance; superfluity; an overflowing.
Redound :: Redound (v. i.) To be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow.
Tule :: Tule (n.) A large bulrush (Scirpus lacustris, and S. Tatora) growing abundantly on overflowed land in California and elsewhere..
Flood :: Flood (v. t.) To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley..
Wasteweir :: Wasteweir (n.) An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like..
Outswell :: Outswell (v. t.) To swell beyond; to overflow.
Overfullness :: Overfullness (n.) The state of being excessively or abnormally full, so as to cause overflow, distention, or congestion; excess of fullness; surfeit..
Salt :: Salt (n.) Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass..
Slop :: Slop (v. i.) To overflow or be spilled as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; -- often with over..
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..
Submerge :: Submerge (v. t.) To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to flood; to drown.
Brimful :: Brimful (a.) Full to the brim; completely full; ready to overflow.
Cataclysm :: Cataclysm (n.) An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.
Landflood :: Landflood (n.) An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet.
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