Overswell

Quick meaning: Overswell is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To swell or rise above (something, especially the rim of a container, the sides of something hollow, etc.).

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To swell or rise above (something, especially the rim of a container, the sides of something hollow, etc.).

More Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To cause (something) to be too swollen or large; to become too swollen or large.
2. An excessive or sudden increase or flood (of something).

Example Sentences

Fill, Lucius, till the wine o’erswell the cup;

Let floods o’erswell, and fiends for food howl on!

In some years the river overswells its banks, causing widespread flooding.

When mushrooms they were fairy bowers, Their marble pillars over-swelling,

Word Forms

• overswells
• overswelling
• overswelled
• over-swell

Synonyms for overswell

Depending on context, synonyms include overflow, surge.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include outswell, swell, oversize, overrise, oversoar, hyperinflate.

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