overwelled

Verb

overwell (third-person singular simple present overwells, present participle overwelling, simple past and past participle overwelled)

1. To overflow.
   • Then sit in silence down, and brooding dwell, Through the slow years, on all we loved, and tell Each tone, each look of love, each syllable, With lips that work, with eyes that overwell!1864, Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, Poems, page 218
2. To experience such strong emotion that it cannot be contained.
   • How his heart so proudly overwells!1906, Private Concerts, page 19
3. To fill with a crescendo of sound.
   • The heavy-throated cannon-song of battle boomed and swelled, Roared louder, lifted mightier, overwelled!1898 May, Edwin Ford Piper, “Poem”, in The Kiote, volume 1, number 4, page 85
4. To flow over; to overrun.
   • The flames overwelled and he made a dash for the door where this Kodizia was grunting like a pig.1991, Ositadinma Adeolu Nnanyelugo Olusanya Ike, Surprise Party: An Anthology of Short Stories, page 60

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