Overflush

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

Surplus assets..

Definitions by Sense

1. Surplus assets.
2. An excess of something.
3. A flush that appears over something.
4. The act of overflushing.
5. A displacement fluid that is forced into a system in order to clear out active fluids that are used in a treatment, such as fracking, desalinization, etc.
6. The act or process of forcing overflush into a system in order to clear out active fluids.
7. To flush to excess.
8. To flush over.

Example Sentences

In his judgment in this case, the vice Chancellor Wigram refers to my decision in Woods v. Woods, in which I held, that under a gift of "all overflush to my wife towards her support and her family," the widow took the property subject to a trust for the family.

Every day there is an overflush that would be wasted but for the blessed tin can or the glass jar.

We have an overflush of money at present, but I hope to show the honourable member who is interesting himself in my affairs that the influence of money will dwindle rapidly.

[…] if my wife should marry then my will is that two thirds of my property not disposed of be sold and thirty pounds paid to each of my grand daughters Margaret Allen and Ivea Fox as they come of age and the other third to be sold at my wife's decease if the first sail amounts to sixty pound and any overflush of both sails to be equally divided between my four grand Children above named […]

Lady Albinia was allowed by all who knew her, to be one of the most admirable correctives to an overflush of youth .

Of life and life's significant loveliness, Be reconcilement for the easy loss Of tendril graces that climb about the heart, And smother it with overflush of bloom.

Margit , you've an overflush of sense in your composition. You put two thoughts where common folk such as me can only crush in one .

This is attributed to too wet a season and consequent overflush of feed .

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• overflushes
• overflushing
• overflushed
• more overflush
• most overflush

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