overfill
overfill verb: to fill beyond capacity or beyond what is appropriate.
Verb
overfill (third-person singular simple present overfills, present participle overfilling, simple past and past participle overfilled)
Noun
overfill (plural overfills)
- An instance of overfilling.
overfill meaning in Sanskrit and Vietnamese
overfill in Sanskrit
- to overfill, surcharge
- प्यै pyai
overfill in Vietnamese
- to fill beyond capacity
- đầy tràn
Forms of overfill
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | overfills |
| present participle | overfilling |
| past participle | overfilled |
| past | overfilled |
| Noun | |
| plural | overfills |
Origin of overfill
From Middle English *overfillen, oferfüllen, from Old English oferfyllan (“to cram, overfill”), equivalent to over- + fill. Cognate with Middle Low German overfullen, German überfüllen, Danish overfylde, Swedish överfylla.
Questions about overfill
- What does overfill mean?
- Overfill means to fill beyond capacity or beyond what is appropriate.
- What is overfill in Sanskrit?
- Overfill in Sanskrit is प्यै (pyai). See Overfill meaning in Sanskrit.
- What part of speech is overfill?
- Overfill can be a verb or a noun.
- What is the past tense of overfill?
- The past tense of overfill is overfilled.
Words near overfill in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: overfill (page history and authors); प्यै (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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