overflow

About 2.38 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The spillage resultant from overflowing.
2. noun An outlet for escape of excess material.
3. noun Excess, superabundance
4. noun The situation where a value exceeds the available numeric range.
5. verb To flow over the brim of (a container).

   The river overflowed the levee into the road.

6. verb To cover with a liquid, literally or figuratively.

   The flash flood overflowed most of the parkland and some homes.

7. verb To cause an overflow. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
8. verb To flow over the brim of a container.

   The waters overflowed into the Ninth Ward.

Similar words

spill over overspill outpouring brim over overrun run over bubble over flood runoff well over

Often followed by

of from with and the into in is pipe

Word family

overflowed overflowing overflows