The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overfly \O`ver*fly"\, v. t. [imp. Overflew; p. p. Overflown;
p. pr. & vb. n. Overflying.]
To cross or pass over by flight.
--Byron.
Wiktionary
vb. (past participle of overfly English)
WordNet
n. a large flow [syn: flood, outpouring]
the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity [syn: runoff, overspill]
v. flow or run over (a limit or brim) [syn: overrun, well over, run over, brim over]
overflow with a certain feeling; "The children bubbled over with joy"; "My boss was bubbling over with anger" [syn: bubble over, spill over]
[also: overflown]
See overflow
Usage examples of "overflown".
It wasn't until they had overflown the alleged site several times that Jaxorn noticed the declivity well overgrown with grass and shrubs, with the suspicion of white glinting through the vegetation.
Ned insisted that he had seen Thread fall on the ground-cover plants, had not seen them wither or be ingested, and that by the time Drake had overflown the stake, there was no evidence that Thread had ever fallen on that twelve-by twenty-meter rectangle.
Jaxom didn't bother to mention that Dorse and his friends, once they'd heard of the incident, never let Jaxom forget the weyrling who had been dashed to death on the mountain slopes because he'd overflown his young dragon.