英语词汇“overflow”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	overflow
释义	overflow I. \\| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷\| ̷ ̷\ verb Etymology: Middle English overflowen, from Old English oferflōwan, from ofer, adverb, over + flōwan to flow *transitive verb* 1. : to flow over : cover with or as if with water : inundate < the flooded river overflowed the adjacent fields > 2. : to flow over the brim of < a river overflowing its banks > 3. : to cause to overflow *intransitive verb* 1. a. : to run or flow over bounds < every spring the river overflows > b. : to fill a space to capacity and spread beyond its limits < the crowd overflowed into the street > < we can overflow in pleasant weather into my small garden — Eleanor Roosevelt > 2. a. : to become filled to running over < filled his glass till it overflowed > b. : superabound < their soil … overflows with wine and oil — H.T.Buckle > II. \ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun 1. : a flowing over (as of water or other fluid) : inundation 2. a. : something that flows over : surplus, excess < territory into which her teeming human overflow can be siphoned — T.H.Fielding > < this year's overflow of applications — Cecile Starr > b. : the peripheral drift of excess population from a protected habitat to other suitable environments 3. : an outlet or a receptacle for surplus liquid 4. : overflow pipe 5. a. : continuance of the sense or extension of a rhetorical unit from one line into the next : enjambment b. : continuance of meter from one line into the next so that a foot begun at the end of a line may be completed at the beginning of the next : synaphea III. adjective Etymology: overflow (II) 1. : constituting an overflow < overflow population from central New York — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > < overflow patients lie on floors and corridors — Gertrude Samuels > 2. : so large as to exceed capacity and overflow < sang before overflow crowds — American Guide Series: Louisiana > < a program with an overflow attendance — W.F.Cunningham >
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