overswell

溢出, 流出, 泛滥

发音

UK /əʊvəˈswɛl/
其它
US /ˌoʊvɚˈswɛl/
其它
UK /ˈəʊvəswɛl/
US /ˈoʊvɚˌswɛl/

词形变化

overswells 复数 overswells overswelled overswelling overswells 三单 overswelling 现在分词 overswelled 过去式 overswelled 过去分词

别名

o’erswell over-swell

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An excessive or sudden increase or flood (of something).

    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:

v.
  1. 1.

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

    及物/不及物

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

    1768, Ignatius Sancho, 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

  2. 2.

    To cause (something) to be too swollen or large; to become too swollen or large.

    及物/不及物

    1885, Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, The Burton Club, Volume 1, 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.

词源

From over- + swell.

来源：wiktionary