Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To overflow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To overflow.
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- verb To
overflow .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He answered, “I know not, but sore I misdoubt me that soon we shall know thereof overwell.”
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Folks say that if Madame Puss, that land-creature who does not love the water overwell, is carried miles from her home in the dark, she will find the way back again.
Lord Dolphin Harriet A. Cheever
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If it hangs not overwell together in places, if there be contradictions, lacunae, or openings for doubt, fling the Verdict of History into the gap, and so strike any questioner into silence.
The Life of Cesare Borgia Sabatini, Rafael, 1875-1950 1912
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If it hangs not overwell together in places, if there be contradictions, lacunae, or openings for doubt, fling the Verdict of History into the gap, and so strike any questioner into silence.
The Life of Cesare Borgia Rafael Sabatini 1912
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He answered, "I know not, but sore I misdoubt me that soon we shall know thereof overwell."
The Story of the Volsungs Anonymous 1873
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"Well, since it is but scant six o'clock, I may do that; but I bid thee ask me not overmuch; for meseemeth Dame Elinor is not overwell pleased with thee to-day, nor our chaplain either."
Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair William Morris 1865
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I advertised again, and after some time succeeded in getting copying to do, for which I was not overwell paid.
Coralie Everyday Life Library No. 2 Charlotte M. Brame 1860
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Mrs. Blyth was doubtless not overwell satisfied with the cool manner in which her invitation had been received.
Hide and Seek Wilkie Collins 1856
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It hath reached me, O auspicious King, the director, the right-guiding, lord of the rede which is benefiting and of deeds fair-seeming and worthy celebrating, that the Barber wight, after he and the Captain had finished their search without finding anyone, said, "There remaineth to us only the cistern shaft;" so he went and peered therein, but he could not use his sight overwell.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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"All the same," said he, "from what I know of your affairs, which I think I know as well as my own, it appears to me that the count has not overwell kept the dazzling promises of fortune he made Madame Gerdy on your behalf."
The Widow Lerouge ��mile Gaboriau 1852
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