Word Meanings - OVERFLOW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm. The northern nations overflowed all Christendom. Spenser. 2. To flow over the brim of; to fill more than full.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OVERFLOW)

• Abound
• Stream
• swell
• flow
• increase
• overflow
• superabound
• luxuriate
• teem
• swarm
• flourish
• prevail
• be plentiful
• wanton
• revel
• multiply
• Effluence
• Outpouring
• emission
• discharge
• abundance
• Inundate
• Overflow
• submerge
• deluge
• flood
• overwhelm

Related words: (words related to OVERFLOW)

• FLOODER
  One who floods anything.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• PLENTIFUL
  1. Containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample; as, a plentiful harvest; a plentiful supply of water. 2. Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful. If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year. Bacon. 3. Lavish; profuse; prodigal.
• REVELLENT
  Causing revulsion; revulsive. -- n.
• OUTPOUR
  To pour out. Milton.
• FLOODAGE
  Inundation. Carlyle.
• REVEL
  See REVEAL
• ABUNDANCE
  An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been
• REVELATION
  1. The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them. 2. That which is revealed. The act of revealing divine truth. That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible. By revelation he made known unto
• STREAMLET
  A small stream; a rivulet; a rill.
• SWARM
  To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin. At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it. W. Coxe.
• WANTONNESS
  The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as
• OVERFLOWING
  An overflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness. He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full mind on anybody who would start a subject. Macaulay.
• SWELLTOAD
  A swellfish.
• STREAM WHEEL
  A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a current wheel.
• OVERWHELM
  1. To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; to crush; to bury; to oppress, etc., overpoweringly. The sea overwhelmed their enemies.
• REVELATOR
  One who makes a revelation; a revealer.
• INUNDATE
  pref. in- in + undare to rise in waves, to overflow, fr. unda a wave. 1. To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town. 2. To fill with an overflowing abundance or superfluity; as, the country
• PREVAILINGLY
  So as to prevail.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• UPSWELL
  To swell or rise up.
• WATERFLOOD
  A flood of water; an inundation.
• UPSTREAM
  Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current.
• DISTREAM
  To flow. Yet o'er that virtuous blush distreams a tear. Shenstone.
• DEMISSION
  1. The act of demitting, or the state of being demitted; a letting down; a lowering; dejection. "Demission of mind." Hammond. Demission of sovereign authority. L'Estrange. 2. Resignation of an office.