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Definition of Overflow |
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Overflow
To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm. To flow over the brim of; to fill more than full. To run over the bounds. To be superabundant; to abound. A flowing over, as of water or other fluid; an inundation. That which flows over; a superfluous portion; a superabundance. An outlet for the escape of surplus liquid. Related Definitions: Abound, An, As, Be, Brim, Cover, Escape, Fill, Flow, Flowing, Fluid, For, Full, Inundate, Inundation, Liquid, More, Of, Or, Other, Outlet, Over, Overwhelm, Portion, Run, Spread, Superabundance, Superabundant, Superfluous, Surplus, Than, That, The, To, Water, Which, With |
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Overflow Quotations
An overflow of good converts to bad. William Shakespeare Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. Ambrose Bierce The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind. William Godwin Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. William Wordsworth It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers. Sidney Blumenthal |
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Overflow Translations
overflow in Italian is traboccare overflow in Latin is superfluo, redundo |
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