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verb
- 1. (especially of a liquid) flow over the brim of a receptacle: "chemicals overflowed from a storage tank"
noun
- 1. the flowing over of a liquid: "there was some overflow after heavy rainfall" Similar
- 2. (in a bath or sink) an outlet for excess water.
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OVERFLOW definition: 1. When a liquid overflows, it flows over the edges of a container, etc. because there is too much…. Learn more.
OVERFLOW meaning: 1. When a liquid overflows, it flows over the edges of a container, etc. because there is too much…. Learn more.
The meaning of OVERFLOW is to cover with or as if with water : inundate. How to use overflow in a sentence.
Overflow definition: to flow or run over, as rivers or water. See examples of OVERFLOW used in a sentence.
The overflow is the extra people or things that something cannot contain or deal with because it is not large enough. Tents have been set up next to hospitals to handle the overflow.
To overflow is to go beyond filling something with a liquid, so that it gushes over the edges. During heavy rainstorms, rivers sometimes overflow their banks and flood the surrounding land.
1. The act of overflowing. 2. Something that flows over; an excess. 3. An outlet or vent through which excess liquid may escape. 4. Computers A condition in which a calculation produces a unit of data too large to be stored in the location allotted to it. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
