overflow

1. 1.

   flow or run over (a limit or brim)

   Synonymsoverrunwell overrun overbrim over

   Broaderspill

   Narrowergeyser
2. 2.

   overflow with a certain feeling

   “The children bubbled over with joy”

   “My boss was bubbling over with anger”

   Synonymsbubble overspill over

   Broaderseethe

Other forms of overflow

plural

overflows·

past tense or participle

overflown

present participle

overflowing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about overflow

What does overflow mean?

overflow means "a large flow". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in overflow?

overflow has 3 syllables: o-ver-flow. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈoʊvɚˌfloʊ/.

What is another word for overflow?

Close synonyms include flood, outpouring, runoff, overspill, overrun. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is overflow a common word?

overflow is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with overflow?

5 words rhyme with overflow. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.