overflow 的 3 个定义
o·ver·flowed, o·ver·flown, o·ver·flow·ing.
- to flow or run over, as rivers or water: After the thaw, the river overflows and causes great damage.
- to have the contents flowing over or spilling, as an overfull container: Stop pouring or your glass is going to overflow.
- to pass from one place or part to another as if flowing from an overfull space: The population overflowed into the adjoining territory.
- to be filled or supplied with in great measure: a heart overflowing with gratitude; a region overflowing with orchards and vineyards.
o·ver·flowed, o·ver·flown, o·ver·flow·ing.
- to flow over; flood; inundate: The river overflowed several farms.
- to flow over or beyond.
- to cause to overflow.
- (5)
- an overflowing: the annual overflow of the Nile.
- something that flows or runs over: to carry off the overflow from a fountain.
- a portion crowded out of an overfilled place: to house the overflow of the museum's collection in another building.
- (5)
overflow 近义词
flood, inundation
overflow 的近义词 34 个
- deluge
- flash flood
- overabundance
- torrent
- niagara
- advance
- cataclysm
- cataract
- congestion
- discharge
- encroachment
- enforcement
- engorgement
- excess
- exuberance
- flooding
- infringement
- overcrowding
- overkill
- overmuch
- overproduction
- plethora
- pour
- propulsion
- push
- redundancy
- spate
- spill
- spillover
- submergence
- submersion
- superfluity
- surfeit
- surplus
overflow 的反义词 6 个
pour out, flood
更多overflow例句
- He went on to have a career as an extreme-cleaning specialist and professional downsizer who now appears on two TV series about people dealing with an overflow of stuff.
- You can get into overflow and fill them with water at -30 degrees, take them off, dump them out, put them back on, and your feet will warm back up.
- We vetted and contracted backup factories who met our high criteria to help work through backlog in case of overflow.
- Heavy rains cause overflows that send billions of gallons of effluent into local waterways.
- Those in rural areas, in particular, have been grappling with overflow conditions because some of their larger partners in urban centers have stopped accepting transfers.
- Today, sewage overflow is rarely an issue in developed cities.
- Pope Francis urged the local parish to open up a closed monastery on the island to house the overflow.
- “Barack Obama believes America is in need of great change,” Santorum said to the overflow crowd of 2,500.
- The overflow crowds were thinning out—and he was becoming less of a novelty.
- An hour to the north, at the rural Tilton School, Mitt Romney faced his own overflow crowd beneath quietly humming ceiling fans.
- They would not then have been so annoyed by an overflow of traders nor been rendered the laughing-stock of the community.
- The owners of a well may prevent its overflow and thereby cut off water that formerly ran into a stream.
- How was he to know that these tears were the overflow of a heart that was on the point of bursting from sheer joy?
- During the fortnight which followed the overflow, every day was employed by Madame Bastien, her son, and David in benevolent work.
- It would often overflow the country entirely, were it not that the banks are guarded by dikes, like the dikes of the sea.