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单词 overfleet
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overfleetv.

Forms: see over- prefix and fleet v.1; also Scottish 1800s owerfleete (archaic).
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, fleet v.1
Etymology: < over- prefix + fleet v.1 Compare Middle Dutch overvlieten (Dutch overvlieten), Middle Low German ȫvervlēten, Old High German ubarfliozan (Middle High German übervliezen, German überfließen), Old Swedish ivirflyta.
Obsolete (Scottish in later use).
1.
a. intransitive. 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
the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > abound [verb (intransitive)] > flow or fall abundantly
overflowOE
rainc1175
streama1250
overfleeta1325
fleetc1374
gush?a1400
pour1538
troll1576
to rain in1596
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 586 Fiftene elne it ouer-flet Ouer ilk dune and ouer ilc hil.
c1390 Castle of Love (Vernon) (1967) 849 (MED) Þe grace þat ouerfleot Socoureþ al þe world ȝut.
a1500 (?a1400) Stanzaic Life of Christ (Harl. 2250) (1926) 10253 (MED) Thyng þat ouer-fletes be foly, be gode consayle restraynes he.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xiii. iii. 131 And with quhou large wepyng, duyll and wa Ourfleit sal all the cite.
a1586 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems l. 46 Waill, and wit of womanheid, That sa with vertew dois ouerfleit.
b. transitive. To overflow, flow over, flood.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > flood or overflow [verb (transitive)]
overruneOE
overflowOE
surround1444
overfleeta1460
infounder1505
overfloat1601
inund1628
deluge1649
inound1657
flood1663
to set on float1692
overflood?1784
inundate1791
float1794
freshet1865
a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) 509 Ther flood is wont the felde to ouer flete.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) ix. i. 78 Vmquhile the fertill fluide, Nylus, Ourfletand all the feildis, bank and bus.
a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) i. 405 Bath felde and fyrth oure-flet that flude.
c1613 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 21 The corneland is overflotin with water.
1857 H. S. Riddell Psalms lxix. 15 Letna the waterflude owerfleete me, naether let the deep swallie me up.
2. transitive. To drown. rare.
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the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by drowning
adrenchOE
drunkenc1175
ofdrunkenc1175
drenchc1200
drowna1300
drenklea1325
drunka1375
stiflea1387
drinkc1425
overfleetc1425
bishop1840
c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 4306 Many a darte was ther cast and schotyn, And many a bodi ouer-floten.
3. transitive. To cover with floating objects. rare.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > with floating things
overfleeta1522
overfloat1590
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) x. v. 135 And saw the navy cum and mekill ost, Semand the sey of schippis all our flet.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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