overflow

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To flow or run over the top, brim, or banks.
2. v. To be filled beyond capacity, as a container or waterway.
3. v. To have a boundless supply; be superabundant. See Synonyms at teem¹.
4. v. To flow over the top, brim, or banks of.
5. v. To spread or cover over; flood.
6. v. To cause to fill beyond capacity.
7. n. The act of overflowing.
8. n. Something that flows over; an excess.
9. n. An outlet or vent through which excess liquid may escape.
10. n. Computer Science A condition in which a calculation produces a unit of data too large to be stored in the location allotted to it.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To flow or spread over; inundate; cover with water or other liquid; flood.
2. To fill and run over the edge or brim of.
3. To deluge; overwhelm; cover; overrun.
4. To overcome with drink; intoxicate.
5. To flow over; swell and run over the brim or banks.
6. To be so full that the contents run over the brim; be more than full.
7. n. A flowing over; an inundation.
8. n. The excess that flows over; hence, superabundance; exuberance.
9. n. Specifically, that form or style of verse in which the sense may flow on through more than a couple of lines, and does not necessarily terminate with the line.
10. n. Same as overflow-basin.

Wiktionary

1. n. The spillage resultant from overflow; excess.
2. v. To fill beyond the limits of a container or system.
3. v. computing, transitive, intransitive To exceed the available numeric range.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm.
2. v. To flow over the brim of; to fill more than full.
3. v. To run over the bounds.
4. v. To be superabundant; to abound.
5. n. A flowing over, as of water or other fluid; an inundation.
6. n. That which flows over; a superfluous portion; a superabundance.
7. n. An outlet for the escape of surplus liquid.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity
2. v. flow or run over (a limit or brim)
3. v. overflow with a certain feeling
4. n. a large flow