overswell

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Verb

 * 1)  To swell or rise above (something, especially the rim of a container, the sides of something hollow, etc.).
 * 2) * 1768,, letter to Mr. M—, in Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, London: J. Nichols, 3rd edition, 1784, p.13,
 * the heart gratefully throbbing—overswelled with thankful sensations—
 * 1)  To cause (something) to be too swollen or large; to become too swollen or large.
 * 2) * 1885,, , The Burton Club, Volume1, Translator’s Foreward, p.xvi,
 * My annotations avoid only one subject, parallels of European folk-lore and fabliaux which, however interesting, would overswell the bulk of a book whose speciality is anthropology.
 * 1) * 1768,, letter to Mr. M—, in Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, London: J. Nichols, 3rd edition, 1784, p.13,
 * the heart gratefully throbbing—overswelled with thankful sensations—
 * 1)  To cause (something) to be too swollen or large; to become too swollen or large.
 * 2) * 1885,, , The Burton Club, Volume1, Translator’s Foreward, p.xvi,
 * My annotations avoid only one subject, parallels of European folk-lore and fabliaux which, however interesting, would overswell the bulk of a book whose speciality is anthropology.
 * 1) * 1885,, , The Burton Club, Volume1, Translator’s Foreward, p.xvi,
 * My annotations avoid only one subject, parallels of European folk-lore and fabliaux which, however interesting, would overswell the bulk of a book whose speciality is anthropology.
 * My annotations avoid only one subject, parallels of European folk-lore and fabliaux which, however interesting, would overswell the bulk of a book whose speciality is anthropology.

Noun

 * 1) An excessive or sudden increase or flood (of something).
 * 2) * 1983, Kenneth A. McClane, “From a Silent Center” in A Tree Beyond Telling, San Francisco: Black Scholar Press, p.31,
 * when no Jihad / opens the conceived / to distention, the reedy creek / to overswells / of mudwallow:
 * 1) * 1983, Kenneth A. McClane, “From a Silent Center” in A Tree Beyond Telling, San Francisco: Black Scholar Press, p.31,
 * when no Jihad / opens the conceived / to distention, the reedy creek / to overswells / of mudwallow: