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overflow
noun as in flood, inundation
Strongest matches
verb as in pour out, flood
Example Sentences
For her book launch earlier this week, hundreds packed into the cavernous women's college auditorium in Kochi - fittingly called the Mother Mary Hall - with an overflow crowd watching on a live stream outside.
The Sutlej River had overflowed, submerging homes and washing away the walls that were meant to protect them.
Mark flushes Miranda’s toilet and it overflows, sending a previous occupant’s feces all over the tile.
In court, Mamta, a mother of two, had peered over a stack of overflowing case files, leafing through them before she grew animated.
With no workers left, heaps of trash have been overflowing from public bins and dump yards on to the streets, inconveniencing residents.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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