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Overflow :: Overflow (n.) That which flows over; a superfluous portion; a superabundance.

Slop :: Slop (v. t.) To cause to overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; to spill..

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..

Overflow :: Overflow (v. t.) To flow over the brim of; to fill more than full.

Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its banks; sounds swell or diminish..

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..

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

Merry :: Merry (superl.) Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive.

Spate :: Spate (n.) A river flood; an overflow or inundation.

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

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..

Overflowing :: Overflowing (n.) An overflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness.

Generous :: Generous (a.) Characterized by generosity; abundant; overflowing; as, a generous table..

Submerge :: Submerge (v. t.) To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to flood; to drown.

Exundation :: Exundation (n.) An overflow, or overflowing abundance..

Embankment :: Embankment (n.) A structure of earth, gravel, etc., raised to prevent water from overflowing a level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir, or to carry a roadway, etc..

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

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..

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

Inundate :: Inundate (v. t.) To fill with an overflowing abundance or superfluity; as, the country was inundated with bills of credit..

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