Overwhelmed vs Overflow - What's the difference?
overwhelmed | overflow |
(overwhelm)
To engulf, surge over and submerge.
To overpower, crush.
* Bible, Psalms lxxviii. 53
To overpower emotionally.
To cause to surround, to cover.
The spillage resultant from overflow; excess.
Outlet for escape of excess material.
(computing) The situation where a value exceeds the available numeric range.
To flow over the brim of (a container).
To cover with a liquid, literally or figuratively.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
To cause an overflow. (rfex)
To flow over the edge of a container.
To exceed limits or capacity.
# (computing, ambitransitive) To exceed the available numeric range.
To be superabundant; to abound.
As verbs the difference between overwhelmed and overflow
is that overwhelmed is (overwhelm) while overflow is to flow over the brim of (a container).As a noun overflow is
the spillage resultant from overflow; excess.overwhelmed
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Verb
(head)overwhelm
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Verb
- The dinghy was overwhelmed by the great wave.
- In December 1939 the Soviet Union attacked Finland with overwhelming force.
- The sea overwhelmed their enemies.
- He was overwhelmed with guilt.
- Joy overwhelmed her when she realized that she had won a million dollars.
- (Papin)
Derived terms
* overwhelmingSee also
* too many balls in the airoverflow
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(en noun)Derived terms
* overflow holeVerb
(en verb)- The river overflowed the levee.
- The flash flood overflowed most of the parkland and some homes.
- 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
- The waters overflowed into the Ninth Ward.
- The hospital ER was overflowing with flu cases.
- Calculating 255+1 will overflow an eight-bit byte.
- (Rogers)