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overˈswell, v.
[over- 25, 27, 5, 13.]
1. trans. or intr. To swell unduly, or to excess. (Chiefly in pa. pple. overswollen.)
1586A. Day Eng. Secretary ii. (1625) 49 Ouer-swolne with your humours. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. i. vi. §4 (1622) 48 Monstrously ouerswolne with pride and vanity. c1745H. Brooke Last Sp. John Good in Coll. Pieces (1778) II. 101 Hence the Earth..grew animated..and, through its emptiness, it became overswoln and overweening.
2. a. trans. Of a body of water, etc.: To swell so as to overflow or cover.
1595Shakes. John ii. i. 337 The currant..Whose passage..Shall leaue his natiue channell, and ore-swell..euen thy confining shores. 1633Bp. Hall Hard Texts Amos v. 8. 554 Who causeth the waters of the sea to over-swell their bankes. 1846Poe J. W. Francis Wks. 1864 III. 40 A natural..flow of talk always overswelling its boundaries.
b. absol. or intr.
1599Shakes. Hen. V, ii. i. 97 Let floods ore-swell, and fiends for food howle on. 1640Bp. Reynolds Passions xxx. 320 The Latter resisting the natural course of the streame..makes it..to overswell on all sides.
Hence overˈswelling vbl. n. and ppl. a.; overˈswollen ppl. a.
1594Nashe Terrors of Night Wks. (Grosart) III. 268 The ouerswelling superabundance of ioy and greefe. 1652J. Wright tr. Camus' Nat. Paradox ix. 189 The burthen of her overswollen Heart. 1695J. Edwards Perfect. Script. 563 υπέρογκα..may better be rendred over-swelling. |