overflow

The spillage resultant from overflowing.

High crests of these overflows were: Manhattan, 23.0 feet, 8.0 above bankful, on June 16–17; Wamego, 20.8 feet, 4.8 feet above bankful, on June 17; Topeka, 26.8 feet, 5.8 feet above bankful, on June 17; […]

An outlet for escape of excess material.

Excess, superabundance

GCN: Do you have an overflow of scripts? JG: I have more than we could ever do, certainly. But there's never an overflow of quality, and quality is really hard to come by, real quality.

The situation where a value exceeds the available numeric range.

To flow over the brim of (a container).

The river overflowed the levee into the road.

Theſe are they that went ouer Ioꝛden in the firſt moneth, when it had ouerflowen all his* bankes, and they put to flight all them of the valleis, both toward the Eaſt, and toward the Weſt.

To cover with a liquid, literally or figuratively.

The flash flood overflowed most of the parkland and some homes.

So when they were working that evening at the pumps, there was on this head no small gamesomeness slily going on among them, as they stood with their feet continually overflowed by the rippling clear water […]

To cause an overflow.

To flow over the brim of a container.

The waters overflowed into the Ninth Ward.

To be subject to a load that exceeds limits or capacity.

The hospital ER was overflowing with flu cases.