overswells

Verb

overswell (third-person singular simple present overswells, present participle overswelling, simple past and past participle overswelled)

1. (ambitransitive) To swell or rise above (something, especially the rim of a container, the sides of something hollow, etc.).
   • In some years the river overswells its banks, causing widespread flooding.

   Synonyms:

   overflow, spill over

2. (ambitransitive) To cause (something) to be too swollen or large; to become too swollen or large.
   • […] the rents of lands still grew higher upon every lease that expired, till they have arrived at the present exorbitance; when the frog, overswelling himself, burst at last.1729, Jonathan Swift, “Maxims Controlled in Ireland”, in The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, volume 15, London: W. Johnston, published 1765, page 243

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