Crossword-Solution: OVERFLOW
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Overflow | v. t. | To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm. |
| Overflow | v. t. | To flow over the brim of; to fill more than full. |
| Overflow | v. i. | To run over the bounds. |
| Overflow | v. i. | To be superabundant; to abound. |
| Overflow | n. | A flowing over, as of water or other fluid; an inundation. |
| Overflow | n. | That which flows over; a superfluous portion; a superabundance. |
| Overflow | n. | An outlet for the escape of surplus liquid. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTEA
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with OVERFLOW (5)
The ideal location for all unwanted mail responses: "Flames about this article to the bit bucket." Such a request is guaranteed to overflow one's mailbox with flames.
Then would the tears stand in poor Hepzibah’s eyes, or overflow them with a too abundant gush, so that she was fain to betake herself into some corner, lest Clifford should espy her agitation.
Why should I say things against you to Miss Hatchard--or to anyone?” The apparent evasiveness of the reply caused Charity's indignation to overflow.
And Clancy of the Overflow came down to lend a hand, No better horseman ever held the reins; For never horse could throw him while the saddle-girths would stand, He learnt to ride while droving on the plains.
For where thy happy folk, Canopus, city of Pellaean fame, Dwell by the Nile's lagoon-like overflow, And high o'er furrows they have called their own Skim in their painted wherries; where, hard by, The quivered Persian presses, and that flood Which from the swart-skinned Aethiop bears him down, Swift-parted into sevenfold branching mouths With black mud fattens and makes Aegypt green, That whole domain its welfare's hope secure Rests on this art alone.
Quotes with OVERFLOW (3)
Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner.
Usually when people talk about the trickle-down theory, it has to do with economics. The richer people at the top of a society become, supposedly, the more wealth there is to trickle down to the people below. It never really works out that way, of course, because if there are 2 things people at the top can't stand, they have to be leakage and overflow.
I know how much you grieve over those who are under your care: those you try to help and fail, those you cannot help. Have faith in God and remember that He will is His own way and in His own time complete what we so poorly attempt. Often we do not achieve for others the good that we intend but achieve something, something that goes on from our effort. Good is an overflow. Where we generously and sincerely intend it, we are engaged in a work of creation which may be mysteriou…
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Appears in: Newsday, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1996–2025).