overswell

== English == === Alternative forms === o’erswell over-swell === Etymology === From over- +‎ swell. === Pronunciation === Verb senses: (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əʊvəˈswɛl/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˌoʊvɚˈswɛl/ Rhymes: -ɛl Noun senses: (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈəʊvəswɛl/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈoʊvɚˌswɛl/ === Verb === overswell (third-person singular simple present overswells, present participle overswelling, simple past and past participle overswelled) (ambitransitive) To swell or rise above (something, especially the rim of a container, the sides of something hollow, etc.). Synonyms: overflow, spill over 1768, Ignatius Sancho, letter to Mr. M—, in Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, London: J. Nichols, 3rd edition, 1784, p. 13,[2] […] the heart gratefully throbbing—overswelled with thankful sensations— (ambitransitive) To cause (something) to be too swollen or large; to become too swollen or large. 1885, Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, The Burton Club, Volume 1, Translator’s Foreward, p. xvi,[6] 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. ==== See also ==== overswollen === Noun === overswell (plural overswells) An excessive or sudden increase or flood (of something). Synonym: surge 1983, Kenneth A. McClane, “From a Silent Center” in A Tree Beyond Telling, San Francisco: Black Scholar Press, p. 31,[10] when no Jihad / opens the conceived / to distention, the reedy creek / to overswells / of mudwallow: === Anagrams === overwells