overflow

Meanings

1. 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. 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. 3
   verb

   To flow over the brim of (a container).

   The river overflowed the levee into the road.

4. 4
   verb

   To cover with a liquid, literally or figuratively.

   The flash flood overflowed most of the parkland and some homes.

From Middle English overflowen, from Old English oferflōwan, equivalent to over- + flow.

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