overflow
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a large flow
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- overflow derivation
Sense 2 verb
flow or run over (a limit or brim)
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- overflow derivation
- overproduction derivation
- runoff derivation
- course entails
Sense 3 noun
the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity
Types & categories
- flow hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
overflow with a certain feeling
The children bubbled over with joy
Types & categories
- seethe hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | overflow |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | flow |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | effusion |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | overflow |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | overproduction |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | runoff |
| 2 | entails | Related & opposite | course |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | spill |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | geyser |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | waste |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | overflow |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | flow |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | seethe |