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over-ˈfloat, v.
Also -flote.
[over- 9, 1. In sense 1 perh. for overfleet, through confusion with its pa. pple. overfloten.]
†1. trans. To overflow: = overfleet v. 1 b.
1601Holland Pliny II. 405 The water..giueth a stonie coat or crust to all the earth that it either ouerfloteth or runneth by. 1610― Camden's Brit. i. 690 Doue that often riseth heere and ouerfloteth the fields. 1697Dryden æneid x. 34 The town is fill'd with slaughter, and o'erfloats, With a red deluge, their increasing moats.
2. To float over. lit. and fig.
1658W. Burton Itin. Anton. 175 But it o're-floated rides, And still doth keep its constant tides. 1844Mrs. Browning Lady Geraldine's Courtship xxii, Heard..her pure voice o'erfloat the rest. 1878Masque Poets 66 This frail yacht, that like a flower Overfloats the rolling foam. |