overswell

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /əʊvəˈswɛl/    美 /ˌoʊvɚˈswɛl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An excessive or sudden increase or flood (of something).
    — [The trial] drew a crowd […] that almost stormed the City Hall corridors. Three policement were needed to keep back the overswell.
动词 v.
  1. To swell or rise above (something, especially the rim of a container, the sides of something hollow, etc.). ambitransitive
    — In some years the river overswells its banks, causing widespread flooding.
  2. To cause (something) to be too swollen or large; to become too swollen or large. ambitransitive
    — […] 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.

词形变化

overswells present,singular,third-person overswelling participle,present overswelled participle,past overswelled past o’erswell alternative over-swell alternative overswells plural o’erswell alternative over-swell alternative

词汇关系

相关词
overswollen

词源

词源 1
From over- + swell.
词源 2
From over- + swell.
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