Definition of overflow

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Overflow (n.) An outlet for the escape of surplus liquid.

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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..
Scaturient :: Scaturient (a.) Gushing forth; full to overflowing; effusive.
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..
Freshet :: Freshet (a.) A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation.
Tule :: Tule (n.) A large bulrush (Scirpus lacustris, and S. Tatora) growing abundantly on overflowed land in California and elsewhere..
Salt :: Salt (n.) Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass..
Flooding :: Flooding (n.) The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.
Overflowingly :: Overflowingly (adv.) In great abundance; exuberantly.
Submerge :: Submerge (v. t.) To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to flood; to drown.
Overfull :: Overfull (a.) Too full; filled to overflowing; excessively full; surfeited.
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..
Overwash :: Overwash (v. t.) To overflow.
Overflow :: Overflow (v. t.) To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm..
Overcome :: Overcome (v. t.) To overflow; to surcharge.
Flowage :: Flowage (n.) An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows..
Flood :: Flood (v. t.) To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley..
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..
Superfoetation :: Superflux (n.) Superabundance; superfluity; an overflowing.
Overflow :: Overflow (n.) An outlet for the escape of surplus liquid.
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..
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