单词 | overflowed |
释义 | overflowedadj. Of land: flooded with water; subject to flooding. Of water, a river, etc.: that has overflowed. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > overflow > [adjective] yflown1576 overfloweda1671 overbrimmed1839 the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective] > flooded overdrowned1616 overfloweda1671 deluged1712 waterwashed1808 flooded1836 a1671 R. Knevet Hardnes in Shorter Poems (1966) 369 Make my hard contumacious heart become, Like overflowed grounds. 1776 N.-Amer. & W.-Indian Gazetteer at Florida, East All the shores and overflowed lands are covered with [Barilla]. 1793 J. Byng Diary 4 Aug. in C. B. Andrews Torrington Diaries (1936) III. 277 This place, tho green and pleasant in summer, must be very damp, and overflow'd in winter. 1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 645 The overflowed swamps at its feet. 1848 T. A. Buckley tr. Homer Iliad 392 The plain was all filled with the overflowed water. 1893 Amer. Naturalist 27 354 They probably migrate across overflowed regions near the sea, in time of floods. 1942 S. Kennedy Palmetto Country 15 In 1850..Congress deceded to the states all unsold swamp and overflowed lands within their boundaries. 2002 Prague Post (Nexis) Aug. 28 The smell of rot lingered near the overflowed river. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1671 |
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