debordv.
? Obsolete.† 2. figurative. To go out of bounds, deviate; to go beyond bounds, go to excess. Obsolete.
1. intransitive. Of a body of water: To pass beyond its borders or banks, to overflow.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > flood or overflow [verb (intransitive)]
overfleeta1325
to-waltc1400
overflowa1425
surround1572
diluviate1599
debord1632
restagnate1653
exundate1721
slop1899
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vii. 316 As the Water groweth in the River, and so from it debording.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vii. 317 Violent streames do ever deface, transplant, and destroy all that they debord upon.
1635 D. Person Varieties i. 24 Such as aske, why the Sea doth never debord.
1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 194 A wide expanse..over which the stream when in flood debords to a distance of two miles.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (intransitive)] > go beyond bounds
overflowOE
overpassa1500
overreacha1568
to leap bounds1597
overruna1600
deborda1653
excur1656
slop1859
to hit the high spots1891
a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 77 That hence I from my duety not debord.
a1658 J. Durham Law Unsealed (1675) 362 (Jam.) It is a wonder that men should take pleasure to deboard in their cloathing.
1671 R. McWard True Non-conformist 401 Debording from common methods.
a1678 A. Woodhead Motives Holy Living (1688) 113 Least..your passions sometimes debord where you would not have them.
Derivatives
deˈbording n. = debordment n.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > [noun] > going beyond bounds
overgoinga1382
surmounting14..
supergressiona1550
exceeding1593
debordment1603
pretergression1615
transgression1623
transcension?1624
debording1635
excess1818
overstep1822
overstepping1823
overpassing1865
transcendency1902
transcendence1907
1635 D. Person Varieties ii. 66 Great debording of waters.
1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 96 Too great proness to such like debordings & youthful emancipations.
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