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Meaning overflow meaning

What does overflow mean?
Definitions in simple English

overflow Verb

— Overflow to submerge the brim of The bucket is now wider so the event of an overflow is unlikely. She quickly filled the ice tea glasses to one inch below the rim so the glasses would not overflow.

overflow

— verb (= run over) flow or run over (a limit or brim) — noun (= flood) a large flow — noun the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity — verb (= bubble over) overflow with a certain feeling The children bubbled over with joy My boss was bubbling over with anger

Synonyms overflow synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as overflow?

overflow English » English

flood spill over spill inundate boil over brim over inundation swell flow over flow deluge surplus pour out pour overrun teem run over run outpouring abundance overwhelm increase bubble over brim abound well over surge submerge rise overabundance full to the brim drain burst forth be flooded whelm waft upset torrent spilt slop runoff overspill make overflow glut fill exuberance excess empty dump cover

Topics overflow topics

What do people use overflow to talk about?
Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Flow
States Quantity Enough

Extra
States Quantity

Full
Universe, creation Water Bodies of water

River

Conjugation overflow conjugation

How do you conjugate overflow?

overflow · verb

Examples overflow examples

How do I use overflow in a sentence?

Simple sentences

This river is going to overflow.
The book's blurbs overflow with superlatives.
One drop makes the glass overflow.

Movie subtitles

We'll all have to huddle here and overflow onto the porch.
Don't overflow your tank.
If they overflow the house, they could tramp around out on the lawn.
We are very proud to have the overflow of the State Police Convention.
Overflow. Preflight okay, sir.
Quickly Susan, into the overflow pipe!
Yes of course! It'll come in here, down the overflow pipe!
There's no chance I'll overflow.
Their excrement and refuse block the sewage canals, causing them to overflow, especially in the rainy season.
The Rolling Stones had performed for overflow audiences. without incident in major cities across the United States.
I have managed to secure some notes. about the prison guards and plans of state prison. which mainly handles the overflow of convicted prisoners. and some special cases from the city.
Almost overflow the tub, my head is.
You mean I'd. make some money and maybe be like your field representative, handle the overflow?
Energy will overflow, overload the control element.
This is where we take care of the overflow sir.
Blessed are the people whose hearts overflow with joy, because this joy comes from God.
Our store houses overflow with grain.
I've no dammed up floods of passion for you. There's no chance I'll overflow.
I had to check the electrostatic cathode overflow from the scan condensers.
Out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.
Overflow from Bunco.
You will make the water overflow!
I want to be filled, to overflow.
One more boy like you, and the Los Angeles River will overflow.
All rivers flow into the sea but the sea will never overflow.
If they don't pay us the commission, we just stay at home for once, then they can watch everything overflow.
You mean I'd, er. make some money and maybe be like your field representative, handle the overflow?
Prisons overflow with innocent guys and the world's full of criminals.
That overflow pipe below the kitchen window has very recently been scratched and bent.
They're critically burned. Some of the overflow were transferred to the Air Force Academy Hospital.
Now it's gone from pinch to overflow.
Our jails overflow with men and women convicted on confessions.

News and current affairs

To us, such behavior looks untoward, or even uncivilized; to the participants, it is probably experienced as a natural overflow of righteous feeling.
Poverty runs rampant, orphanages overflow with abandoned children, countless packs of wild dogs roam the streets.
Unmanaged rivers regularly overflow their banks and inundate villages during typhoon season, much as they did a thousand years ago.
Thus, the state's coffers (and hence spending) overflow during booms, but then collapse, forcing emergency retrenchment, during busts.

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