overflow

Speech parts

1. overflow - Noun

2. overflow - Verb

Meaning

To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm.

To flow over the brim of; to fill more than full.

To run over the bounds.

To be superabundant; to abound.

A flowing over, as of water or other fluid; an inundation.

That which flows over; a superfluous portion; a superabundance.

An outlet for the escape of surplus liquid.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

flood overrun runoff outpouring overspill run over spill over brim over well over spiller overstock flow cascade gush stream

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Antonyms

control direct act base basis bear

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Hypernyms

flow stream flowing spill boil run out

Hyponyms

geyser effusion

Phrases with the word

budget overflow overflow section overflow basin storm-overflow sewer overflow valve anti-overflow

Derivatives

overflowed overflowing overflown

Examples

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. William Wordsworth

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. Ambrose Bierce

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself. George Bernard Shaw

I marvel at the stars, and feel my heart overflow. Brandon Boyd

An overflow of good converts to bad. William Shakespeare

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers. Sidney Blumenthal

Close letter words and terms

overflorid overfloridness overflourish overflow basin overflow hole overflow incontinence