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Meanings of overflow in English
Synonyms
Examples for "spill"
Examples for "spill"
1
Now scientists wonder if the oil spill could create a similar problem.
2
He has come under growing political pressure to stop the spill itself.
3
Meanwhile, state officials made coastline preparations for oil from the Gulf spill.
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Sunoco told Reuters it has taken measures to reduce its spill rate.
5
It was probably better to just spill than answer the twenty questions.
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Could the Wehrmacht have overrun Europe without the help of US automakers?
2
However, some in Overtown remain worried they'll be overrun and left behind.
3
The Government has asked PWC to report into the overrun by March.
4
Within two weeks of the German invasion, the Polish army was overrun.
5
Arsenal, it must be said were far from disgraced, outplayed, or overrun.
1
Sea level rise ranges from 30 centimetres to well over a metre.
2
Accordin' to Gilmartin, it'd bring well over a million in today's market.
3
Altogether, these industries employ well over half a million people, said Ramaphosa.
4
It works particularly well over the many islands throughout the Pacific region.
5
I have been working on this record for well over a year.
1
He told her he had seen a cat run over that morning.
2
We had a beautiful run over the mountains; the view was magnificent.
3
I think DeChooch just left the car there to get run over.
4
I have to run over and talk to Sam for a minute.
5
He started the car up and let it run over the bank.
1
She let everything else fall away, let her heart brim over.
2
Sharley threw herself back in the rocking-chair and let her eyes brim over.
3
The environments, particularly the inner-brain worlds, brim over with tiny and usually relevant details.
4
The lama dragged forth his rosary and pulled his huge hat- brim over his eyes.
5
He remembered afterward that at that moment the cup of life seemed to brim over.
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.
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An additional emergency overflow ground has also been arranged, said the statement.
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The new system will enable Kassel to transfer overflow calls to Dublin.
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The crowd began to disperse and to overflow in the surrounding streets.
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And from the overflow of the cistern the fountain below was fed.
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They used the room for overflow when all the kids were home.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Beside it was a curved pipe-almostsurely an overflow pipe, Roland thought.
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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