The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overflow \O`ver*flow"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overflowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Overflowing.] [AS. oferfl?wan. See Over, and Flow.]
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To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm.
The northern nations overflowed all Christendom.
--Spenser. To flow over the brim of; to fill more than full.
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vb. (en-past of: overflow)
Usage examples of "overflowed".
Soon every crack, every crevice, every crease in the dry land overflowed with water.
He filled her until she overflowed with pleasure, sending heat spilling between them.
He wanted to pour himself into her, filling her until she overflowed and turned to him with her own need, her own demand that he be part of her until they were one and that one burned with an endless fire.
Very quickly, the mustang was back on her feet and nosing curiously at the slick, wet bundle that overflowed Jessica’s lap.
Where water overflowed, there was a narrow ribbon of fern and moss that gave way almost immediately to plants better suited for surviving the relentless sun.
Seashell ashtrays overflowed, testament to the patrons’ grim dedication to killing time.
These preliminary steps occupied about an hour, and as nothing further could be done during this tide towards fixing the forge, the workmen gratified their curiosity by roaming about the rock, which they investigated with great eagerness till the tide overflowed it.
When the rock began to be overflowed, the landing-master arranged the crews of the respective boats, appointing twelve persons to each.
His rays had not yet sufficiently dispelled the clouds which hid the land from view, and the Bell Rock being still overflowed, the whole was one expanse of water.
When the boats left the Bell Rock to-day it was overflowed by the flood tide, but the floating light did not swing round to the flood-tide for more than an hour afterwards.
The wind was westerly, and the weather being extremely agreeable, as soon after breakfast as the tide had sufficiently overflowed the rock to float the boats over it, the smiths, with a number of the artificers, returned to the beacon, carrying their fishing-tackle along with them.
At eight o'clock the sea broke in upon us and overflowed the foundation-pit, when the boats returned to the tender.
After continuing three hours at work the foundation of the building was again overflowed, and the boats returned to the ship at half-past eight o'clock.
At twelve noon the rock and building were again overflowed, when the masons and seamen went on board of the tender, but Mr.
All hands being collected and just ready to embark, as the water had nearly overflowed the rock, the writer, in taking leave, after alluding to the harmony which had ever marked the conduct of those employed on the Bell Rock, took occasion to compliment the great zeal, attention, and abilities of Mr.