| 释义 |
overflood, v.|əʊvəˈflʌd|
[over- 5, 9.]
trans. To pour over in a flood; to inundate. Hence overˈflooded ppl. a., overˈflooding vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1821Byron Sardan. v. i. 194 The Euphrates..O'erfloods its banks. 1881E. W. Hamilton Diary 3 Nov. (1972) I. 182 The danger for the moment in Ireland seems to be the over⁓flooding of the Land Court. 1882H. S. Holland Logic & Life (1885) 306 An answer which over-floods our senses with its fulness and compass. 1890T. W. Allies Peter's Rock 341 The Arabians, overflooding Gaul after the conquest of Spain. 1921W. de la Mare Veil 47 Then silence, and o'er-flooding noon. 1955E. Pound Classic Anthol. i. 16 At the over-flooded ford. 1973Nature 21/28 Dec. 450/2 The whole is cut by a dyke swarm which is especially dense at the contact between the layered plutonic rocks and the other components of the formation, and was subsequently overflooded by three different basalt series. |