overflow B2 Topic:Plants & Agriculture US /ˈəʊvəˌfləʊ/ See IPA manual Freq #21571 Meanings 1 noun The spillage resultant from overflowing. High crests of these overflows were: Manhattan, 23.0 feet, 8.0 above bankful, on June 16–17; Wamego, 20.8 feet, 4.8 feet above bankful, on June 17; Topeka, 26.8 feet, 5.8 feet above bankful, on June 17; […]. 2 noun Excess, superabundance GCN: Do you have an overflow of scripts? JG: I have more than we could ever do, certainly. But there's never an overflow of quality, and quality is really hard to come by, real quality. 3 verb To flow over the brim of (a container). The river overflowed the levee into the road. 4 verb To cover with a liquid, literally or figuratively. The flash flood overflowed most of the parkland and some homes. Thesaurus Word family Derived forms overflowableoverflowerunderflow Common collocations overflow incontinence Noun + noun Etymology From Middle English overflowen, from Old English oferflōwan, equivalent to over- + flow. Topics Plants & Agriculture External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # overflow **Type:** Word **Level:** B2 **Part of speech:** noun, verb **IPA (US):** /ˈəʊvəˌfləʊ/ **Frequency rank:** 21571 ## Meanings 1. The spillage resultant from overflowing. 2. Excess, superabundance 3. To flow over the brim of (a container). 4. To cover with a liquid, literally or figuratively. ## Examples - High crests of these overflows were: Manhattan, 23.0 feet, 8.0 above bankful, on June 16–17; Wamego, 20.8 feet, 4.8 feet above bankful, on June 17; Topeka, 26.8 feet, 5.8 feet above bankful, on June 17; […]. - GCN: Do you have an overflow of scripts? JG: I have more than we could ever do, certainly. But there's never an overflow of quality, and quality is really hard to come by, real quality. - The river overflowed the levee into the road. - The flash flood overflowed most of the parkland and some homes. ## Derived Forms - overflowable - overflower - underflow ## Roots and Affixes - Affix: over- - too much ## Etymology From Middle English overflowen, from Old English oferflōwan, equivalent to over- + flow. ## Topics - Plants & Agriculture markdown