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Too full; filled to overflowing; excessively full; surfeited. Shak.

The state of being excessively or abnormally full, so as to cause overflow, distention, or congestion; excess of fullness; surfeit.

To swell or rise above; to overflow. [R.] Shak.

To overflow. Holinshed.

To overflow. R. D. Blackmore.

To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; to crush; to bury; to oppress, etc., overpoweringly. The sea overwhelmed their enemies. Ps. lxxviii. 53. Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhe…

rescue from being wild, desert, waste, submerged, or the like; as, to reclaim wild land, overflowed land, etc.

To be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow. For every dram of honey therein found, A pound of gall doth over it redound. Spenser.

the food of the inhabitants. In America it grows chiefly on low, moist land, which can be overflowed. Ant rice. (Bot.) See under Ant. -- French rice. (Bot.) See Amelcorn. -- Indian rice., a tall reedlike water grass (Zizania aquatica), bearing panicles of a long, slender grain, much used for food by North American In…

stock been less, no doubt She must have long ago run out. Dryden. -- To run over. (a) To overflow; as, a cup runs over, or the liquor runs over. (b) To go over, examine, or rehearse cursorily. (c) To ride or drive over; as, to run over a child. -- To run riot, to go to excess. -- To run through. (a) To go through ha…

Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass.

Gushing forth; full to overflowing; effusive. [R.] A pen so scaturient and unretentive. Sir W. Scott.

A breaking or overflow of a bank or a dike by the sea. L'Estrange.

To cause to overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; to spill.

A river flood; an overflow or inundation. Burns. Gareth in a showerful spring Stared at the spate. Tennyson.

To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to flood; to drown. I would thou didst, So half my Egypt were submerged. Shak.

The act of submerging, or putting under water or other fluid, or of causing to be overflowed; the act of plunging under water, or of drowning.

Superabundance; superfluity; an overflowing. [R.] Shak.

n size or extent by any addition; to increase in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its banks; sounds swell or diminish.

To be overflowed or drenched. Ps. vi. 6. Sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim. Thomson.