Overflow vs Overgrow - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between overflow and overgrow

is that overflow is to be superabundant; to abound while overgrow is to grow over; (of one thing) to cause (a second thing) to become overgrown (with or by the first thing).

As verbs the difference between overflow and overgrow

is that overflow is to flow over the brim of (a container) while overgrow is to grow beyond one's boundaries or containment.

As a noun overflow

is the spillage resultant from overflow; excess.

overflow

English

Noun

(en noun)

The spillage resultant from overflow; excess.

Outlet for escape of excess material.

(computing) The situation where a value exceeds the available numeric range.

Derived terms

* overflow hole

Verb

(en verb)

To flow over the brim of (a container).

The river overflowed the levee.

To cover with a liquid, literally or figuratively.

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

* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

So when they were working that evening at the pumps, there was on this head no small gamesomeness slily going on among them, as they stood with their feet continually overflowed by the rippling clear water

To cause an overflow. (rfex)

To flow over the edge of a container.

The waters overflowed into the Ninth Ward.

To exceed limits or capacity.

The hospital ER was overflowing with flu cases.

# (computing, ambitransitive) To exceed the available numeric range.

Calculating 255+1 will overflow an eight-bit byte.

To be superabundant; to abound.

(Rogers)

Derived terms

* buffer overflow * underflow English heteronyms ----

overgrow

English

Verb

To grow beyond one's boundaries or containment.

To grow over; (of one thing) to cause (a second thing) to become overgrown (with or by the first thing).

* 1886 , Edward Meyrick Goulburn, Meditations upon the liturgical gospels for the minor festivals , page 28:

The utmost they aimed at doing was thoroughly to clear the old Church of all the corruptions and superstitions which had disfigured it in the course of ages, and which, like the flaunting ivy overgrowing some ancient building [...]

* 2002 , James Morrison, Broken Fever: Reflections of Gay Boyhood , page 196:

One wall advertised a dense muddle of ivy overgrowing its prefab brick, while a miniature moat with a jerry-built bridge arcing over it snaked around one of the "halls" (as real universities dub their constituent structures).

* 2008 , J. R. Ward, Lover Enshrined :

"If there is ivy overgrowing things, then we shall clean it up."