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  "pronunciations": {
    "phonetic": [
      "\u02c8o\u028av\u0259r\u02ccflo\u028a",
      "\u02cco\u028av\u0259r\u02c8flo\u028a"
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        "lang": "Audio (Southern England)",
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      {
        "lang": "Audio (Southern England)",
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        "lang": "Audio (Southern England)",
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    "etymologies": [
      "From Middle English overflowen, from Old English oferfl\u014dwan, equivalent to over- + flow."
    ],
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      {
        "name": "Noun",
        "meanlist": [
          {
            "mean": "The spillage resultant from overflow; excess."
          },
          {
            "mean": "Outlet for escape of excess material."
          },
          {
            "mean": "(computing) The situation where a value exceeds the available numeric range."
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": "Verb",
        "meanlist": [
          {
            "mean": "(transitive) To flow over the brim of (a container).\nThe river overflowed the levee.\n1611, The Holy Bible,\u00a0 (King James Version), London:    Robert Barker,\u00a0, \u2192OCLC, 1 Chronicles 12:15:The\u017fe are they that went ouer Io\ua75bden in the fir\u017ft moneth, when it had ouerflowen all his* bankes, and they put to flight all them of the valleis, both toward the Ea\u017ft, and toward the We\u017ft.\n1965 January 1, \u201cGeneral Summary of River and Flood Conditions-Continued\u201d, in Climatological Data: National Summary\u200e, volume 16, number 1, Asheville, NC: United States Weather Bureau, page 265:Locally heavy rains on the 21st caused more than 2 feet of overflow on Salt Creek at Ashland, Nebr., on the 22d. Some county roads were inundated. Mill Creek which flows into the Platte River at Louisville, Nebr., overflowed its banks from the heavy rain."
          },
          {
            "mean": "(transitive) To cover with a liquid, literally or figuratively.\nThe flash flood overflowed most of the parkland and some homes.\n1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick: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"
          },
          {
            "mean": "(transitive) To cause an overflow. (Can we add an example for this sense?)"
          },
          {
            "mean": "(intransitive) To flow over the edge of a container.\nThe waters overflowed into the Ninth Ward."
          },
          {
            "mean": "(intransitive) To exceed limits or capacity.\nThe hospital ER was overflowing with flu cases.",
            "submean": [
              "(computing, transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) exceed the available numeric range.\nCalculating 255+1 will overflow an eight-bit byte."
            ]
          },
          {
            "mean": "(intransitive) To be superabundant; to abound.\n1857, Eustace Rogers Conder, Josiah Conder: A Memoir:I see and feel that I want the first requisite \u2014 a heart overflowing with Divine love towards sinners"
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