"overflow" meaning in English

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      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Terms prefixed with over-",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "over- + flow",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "overflow",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overflows",
      "tags": [
        "third-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overflowed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overflowed",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "participle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overflowing",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "participle"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "verb"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The bucket is now wider so the event of an overflow is unlikely."
        },
        {
          "text": "She quickly filled the ice tea glasses to one inch below the rim so the glasses would not overflow."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If something overflows, it submerges the brim of the container."
      ],
      "id": "simple-overflow-en-verb-nz-~Gyvh"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "ō-və-flōʹ",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌəʊvəˈfləʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "enpr": "ō-vər-flōʹ",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌoʊvɚˈfloʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-overflow (verb).wav",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "overflow"
}

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  "categories": [
    "Terms prefixed with over-"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "over- + flow",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "overflow",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overflows",
      "tags": [
        "third-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overflowed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overflowed",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "participle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overflowing",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "participle"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The bucket is now wider so the event of an overflow is unlikely."
        },
        {
          "text": "She quickly filled the ice tea glasses to one inch below the rim so the glasses would not overflow."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If something overflows, it submerges the brim of the container."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "ō-və-flōʹ",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌəʊvəˈfləʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "enpr": "ō-vər-flōʹ",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌoʊvɚˈfloʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-overflow (verb).wav",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "overflow"
}