3 entries under this word

Overflow

Ō′ver-flōw′, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. OVERFLOWED; p. pr. & vb. n. OVERFLOWING.]

To flow over; to spread over, as water; to inundate; to cover with water or other fluid; to fill beyond the brim.
Hence, to deluge; to overwhelm; to cover, as with numbers.

The northern nations overflowed all Christendom. Spenser.

verbintransitive

v. i. 1. To run over; to swell and run over the brim or banks. 2. To be abundant; to abound; to exuberate; as, overflowing plenty. Rogers.

noun

(119), n. An inundation; also, superabundance. Bacon.