overflow

overflow
Synonyms and related words:
abound, abundance, affluence, alluvion, alluvium, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, avalanche, bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness, bristle with, bumper crop, cascade, cataclysm, cataract, cloud of words, congestion, copiousness, crawl with, creep with, deluge, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusiveness, drown, effusion, effusiveness, engorgement, engulf, engulfment, extravagance, exuberance, exuberate, fecundity, fertility, fill, flood, flooding, flow, fluency, foison, formlessness, full measure, fullness, generosity, generousness, glut, great abundance, great plenty, gush, gushing, hyperemia, inundate, inundation, know no bounds, landslide, lavishness, liberality, liberalness, logorrhea, lots, luxuriance, luxuriate, macrology, maximum, more than enough, much, myriad, myriads, numerousness, opulence, opulency, outpour, outpouring, overabound, overabundance, overbrim, overbrimming, overburden, overcharge, overfill, overflowing, overfreight, overfullness, overgrow, overkill, overload, overmuch, overplus, overrun, overrunning, overspill, overspread, overswarm, overweight, overwhelm, palilogy, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, pleonasm, plethora, pour, pour out, pour over, prevalence, prodigality, productiveness, productivity, profuseness, profusion, proliferate, prolificacy, prolificity, pullulate, quantities, rain, rampancy, rankness, redundancy, reiteration, reiterativeness, repetition for effect, repetitiveness, repleteness, repletion, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot, riotousness, run over, run riot, satiety, saturation, scads, shower, slop, slosh, spate, spill, spill out, spill over, spillage, stream, submerge, submersion, substantiality, substantialness, superabound, superabundance, superfluity, superflux, supersaturation, surcharge, surfeit, surplus, surplusage, swamp, swarm, swarm with, sweep, talkativeness, tautology, teem, teem with, teemingness, the Deluge, the Flood, tirade, torrent, washout, wealth, well, whelm, whelming

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • Overflow — O ver*flow , n. 1. A flowing over, as of water or other fluid; an inundation. Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2. That which flows over; a superfluous portion; a superabundance. Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. An outlet for the escape of surplus liquid. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • overflow — ► VERB 1) flow over the brim of a receptacle. 2) be excessively full or crowded. 3) (overflow with) be very full of (an emotion). ► NOUN 1) the overflowing of a liquid. 2) the excess not able to be accommodated by a space …   English terms dictionary

  • overflow — [n] flood, inundation advance, cataclysm, cataract, congestion, deluge, discharge, encroachment, enforcement, engorgement, excess, exuberance, flash flood, flooding, infringement, niagara, overabundance, overcrowding, overkill, overmuch,… …   New thesaurus

  • overflow — [ō΄vər flō′; ] also, and for n.always [, ō′vər flō΄] vt. 1. to flow over or across; flood 2. to flow over the brim or edge of 3. to cause to overflow by filling beyond capacity vi. 1. to flow beyond the limits; run over 2. to be more than full or …   English World dictionary

  • Overflow — O ver*flow , v. i. 1. To run over the bounds. [1913 Webster] 2. To be superabundant; to abound. Rogers. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Overflow — O ver*flow , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Overflowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Overflowing}.] [AS. oferfl?wan. See {Over}, and {Flow}.] 1. To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm. [1913 Webster]… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Overflow — (engl. für Überlauf, überfließen) bezeichnet: in der Informatik: einen Arithmetischen Überlauf einen Pufferüberlauf einen japanischen Erogē Produzenten: 0verflow Diese Seite ist eine …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • overflow — index balance (amount in excess), cataclysm, inundate, outflow, overage, plethora, surfeit, surplus Burton s …   Law dictionary

  • overflow — *teem, swarm, abound …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • overflow — as a verb, has the past form and past participle overflowed …   Modern English usage

  • overflow — I UK [ˌəʊvə(r)ˈfləʊ] / US [ˌoʊvərˈfloʊ] verb [intransitive/transitive] Word forms overflow : present tense I/you/we/they overflow he/she/it overflows present participle overflowing past tense overflowed past participle overflowed 1) a) to flow… …   English dictionary

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