verb
- to flood excessively or beyond normal capacity; to inundate with too much water
Usage: transitive verb; rare or literary usage
Examples
- Heavy rains threatened to overflood the river valley.
- The dam's overflow gates opened to prevent the reservoir from overflooding the downstream towns.
- Excessive irrigation can overflood agricultural fields and damage crops.
- The basement was overflooded after the pipe burst during the storm.