Overfall

Quick meaning: Overfall is a noun meaning A turbulent section of a body of water, caused by strong currents passing over submerged ridges.

Meaning

A turbulent section of a body of water, caused by strong currents passing over submerged ridges.

More Meanings

1. Part of a garment that hangs so as to cover a lower part.
2. (transitive) To fall on or spill over so as to cover (something).
3. (transitive) To change or affect so as to pervade (something); to come over
4. (intransitive) To fall over; to spill from an edge or height.
5. (intransitive) To fall over; to topple.

Example Sentences

Such a blankness overfell his face!

The troll overfell him. A moment he lay under that mass and could not breathe.

But her laugh stuck in her throat, for at that moment a shadow overfell the two houses

All three passages refer to the disaster that overfell Sennacherib's host and to nothing else.

Word Forms

• overfalls
• overfalling
• overfell
• overfallen

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include spillway, weir, weirs, avulsion, upbreak, roostertail.

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