Verb

(head)

(overflow)

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)

Verb

(head)

(surpass)

Verb

(es)

To go beyond, especially in a metaphoric or technical manner; to exceed.

The former problem student surpassed his instructor's expectations and scored top marks on his examination.

The heavy rains threatened to surpass the capabilities of the levee, endangering the town on the other side.

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