Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To flood over; fill to overflowing.
Wiktionary
- v. archaic To flood
- n. A flood; an excess or superabundance.
Etymologies
- over- + flood (Wiktionary)
Examples
“One of those months where things get too much and my emotions just overflood.”
“It is a negative one: I want to counteract the misunderstandings which overflood the whole field, especially by the careless mixing of mental and moral influence.”
“His great breast and head were joined by a massive column of throat that gave volume for the coursing of the blood to fire the battery of thought, perchance in a tempest overflood it, extinguish it.”
“One hand carried her candle, the light of which fell on her pale face, with its halo of blackness -- her hair, which looked like a well of darkness, that threatened to break from its bonds and overflood the room with a second night, dark enough to blot out that which was now looking in, treeful and deep, at the uncurtained windows.”
“He would have been a stern man, but for an unusual amount of reverence that seemed to overflood the sternness, and change it into strong love.”
“I shall try not to overflood this place with insects, which I acknowledge the fact that some of you have certain repulsion towards small creatures.”
“We need to overflood their emails and phones and march down to their offices.”
“a massive column of throat that gave volume for the coursing of the blood to fire the battery of thought, perchance in a tempest overflood it, extinguish it.”
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