OVERFLOW, OVERFLOWED, OVERFLOWING
ADJECTIVES
► ABOUND overflowing; plentiful; abundant → c1400 obs.
► BEAMFULL full or overflowing → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► EFFUSE wide-spreading, overflowing, unrestrained, extravagant, marked by squandering → 1742 obs.
► ERGANE overflowing → 1863 Sc.
► EXUBERATE overflowing, superabundant → 1638 obs.
► EXUNDANT flowing forth in waves; overflowing, superabundant → a1661
► HEAP AND THRATCH filled to overflowing → 1887 Eng. dial.
► REAMING foaming, frothing; brimful, overflowing → 1787 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SWIMMING overflowing → c1595
► YFLOWN overflowed → 1576 obs.
NOUNS
► ABUNDARY an overflowing source; a fountain-head → 1622 obs.
► EXUNDANCE a flowing forth in waves; an overflow → a1654 obs.
► EXUNDANCY a flowing forth in waves; an overflow → 1686 obs.
► EXUNDATION overflow of a body of water → 1577
VERBS
► DEBORD of a body of water: to pass beyond its borders or banks; to overflow → 1632 obs.
► EXUBERATE to be in great abundance; to be plentiful; to abound; to overflow → 1623
► EXUNDATE to overflow → 1721
► REAM to foam, to froth; to bubble; to overflow → 1773 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SCALE ► SKAIL to spill, to upset; to overflow → 1513 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► SUPERGURGITATE to cause to overflow → 1653 obs.
► TEEM to overflow → 1685 Sc.
► TO-WALT to overflow → a1300 obs.