From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Overflow \O'ver*flow"\, verb (used without an object)
2. To be superabundant; to abound. --Rogers.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. A flowing over, as of water or other fluid; an inundation. --Bacon.
2. That which flows over; a superfluous portion; a superabundance. --Shak.
3. An outlet for the escape of surplus liquid.
{Overflow meeting}, a meeting constituted of the surplus or overflow of another audience.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Overflow \O'ver*flow"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Overflowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Overflowing}.] [AS. oferfl?wan. See {Over}, and {Flow}.]
1. To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm.
The northern nations overflowed all Christendom. --Spenser.
2. To flow over the brim of; to fill more than full.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a large flow [syn: {flood}, {outpouring}]
2: the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity [syn: {runoff}, {overspill}]
verb
1: flow or run over (a limit or brim) [syn: {overrun}, {well over}, {run over}, {brim over}]
2: overflow with a certain feeling; "The children bubbled over with joy"; "My boss was bubbling over with anger" [syn: {bubble over}, {spill over}] [also: {overflown}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
179 Moby Thesaurus words for "overflow": abound, abundance, affluence, alluvion, alluvium, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, avalanche, bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness, bristle with, bumper crop, cascade, cataclysm, cataract, cloud of words, congestion, copiousness, crawl with, creep with, deluge, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusiveness, drown, effusion, effusiveness, engorgement, engulf, engulfment, extravagance, exuberance, exuberate, fecundity, fertility, fill, flood, flooding, flow, fluency, foison, formlessness, full measure, fullness, generosity, generousness, glut, great abundance, great plenty, gush, gushing, hyperemia, inundate, inundation, know no bounds, landslide, lavishness, liberality, liberalness, logorrhea, lots, luxuriance, luxuriate, macrology, maximum, more than enough, much, myriad, myriads, numerousness, opulence, opulency, outpour, outpouring, overabound, overabundance, overbrim, overbrimming, overburden, overcharge, overfill, overflowing, overfreight, overfullness, overgrow, overkill, overload, overmuch, overplus, overrun, overrunning, overspill, overspread, overswarm, overweight, overwhelm, palilogy, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, pleonasm, plethora, pour, pour out, pour over, prevalence, prodigality, productiveness, productivity, profuseness, profusion, proliferate, prolificacy, prolificity, pullulate, quantities, rain, rampancy, rankness, redundancy, reiteration, reiterativeness, repetition for effect, repetitiveness, repleteness, repletion, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot, riotousness, run over, run riot, satiety, saturation, scads, shower, slop, slosh, spate, spill, spill out, spill over, spillage, stream, submerge, submersion, substantiality, substantialness, superabound, superabundance, superfluity, superflux, supersaturation, surcharge, surfeit, surplus, surplusage, swamp, swarm, swarm with, sweep, talkativeness, tautology, teem, teem with, teemingness, the Deluge, the Flood, tirade, torrent, washout, wealth, well, whelm, whelming
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