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Meanings of overflow in English
Synonyms
Examples for "flood"
Examples for "flood"
1
We often hear the term 'flood-ravaged' used in relation to some areas.
2
Main street Ba just minutes ago as flood waters continue to rise.
3
The aid agency Concern is appealing for help for Somali flood victims.
4
It was the second major flood reported this week in the north.
5
However, a flood warning remains in place along the lower River Shannon.
1
Yet every outpouring is a potential local livelihood, local business, training opportunity.
2
The problem was that outpouring of emotion had merely masked the reality.
3
I mean considerin' the outpouring of support from our friends and family.
4
The national mood was exactly what we thought: an outpouring of sadness.
5
They had to come to London to respond to the public outpouring.
Usage of overflow in English
1
Great Britain now commands capital, while China and India overflow with labor.
2
Pool that I did not consider New Orleans in danger from overflow.
3
The general arrangement of a leap weir overflow is shown in Fig.
4
An additional emergency overflow ground has also been arranged, said the statement.
5
The new system will enable Kassel to transfer overflow calls to Dublin.
6
The crowd began to disperse and to overflow in the surrounding streets.
7
And from the overflow of the cistern the fountain below was fed.
8
They used the room for overflow when all the kids were home.
9
We're looking for someone to take the overflow from us, she said.
10
That happens sometimes, if adding a new file triggers a shelf overflow.
11
One day, it's going to overflow, right out there to the Outskirts.
12
Notice the enjambment, i.e., the overflow of this verse into the next.
13
The overflow of energy lost the tendency to dissipation and became steady.
14
I must overflow his meadow and prevent him from cutting the grass.
15
Beside it was a curved pipe-almostsurely an overflow pipe, Roland thought.
16
The well of misery would fill and overflow, gently and smoothly irresistible.
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Overflow through the time
Overflow across language varieties
New Zealand
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common