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to overflow
01
to spill or exceed a brim or limit
Intransitive
Grammatical Information
Composition
derived
Movement verb
Regular
Present tense
overflow
3rd person singular
overflows
Present participle
overflowing
Past simple
overflowed
Past participle
overflowed
Examples
Water overflowed from the bathtub onto the bathroom floor.
02
to have so much of a feeling or quality that it becomes evident
Intransitive: to overflow with an emotion
Examples
She overflowed with happiness when she saw her family again.
Overflow
01
a large flow
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Inanimate
Composition
Compound
Countable
Plural form
overflows
02
the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity
Lexical Tree
overflow
flow
