overfill
verb
over·fill ˌō-vər-ˈfil 
overfilled; overfilling; overfills
transitive verb
: to fill to overflowing
intransitive verb
: to become full to overflowing
Synonyms
- overburden
- overcharge
- overload
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Example Sentences
He overfilled the pail and the water spilled out. overfilled the wheelbarrow with bricks until finally no one could push it
Recent Examples on the Web Full-service gas stations played up safety hazards around self-service, arguing that untrained drivers would overfill their tanks and start a fire. 
Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 18 June 2022 Traditional hotels overfill quickly during high season. Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2022 The city’s best practices are not to overfill the barns and that the salt is pushed back into the barns and away from the doors. Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Feb. 2022 The tricks are to not overfill the leaves, to roll them tightly and to approach each one with utter confidence. Yasmin Khan, WSJ, 12 May 2021 But don't be tempted to overfill, as your pie may crack and filling may come spilling out during the baking process. Meredith Deeds Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 10 Mar. 2021 The system works quite well as long as the user doesn’t overfill the pack, either by packing a bino that’s too large or by stuffing too many items in the interior pockets. John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 4 Nov. 2020 Car sales plummeted in the spring, causing shipment lots to overfill and forcing cargo ships to hold new vehicles at sea for weeks. Fortune, 20 Sep. 2020 By adding long text strings in the file, attackers can overfill the memory space allotted for the file and cause malicious code to spill into other parts of memory, where it then is executed. Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 29 July 2020 See More
Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 18 June 2022 Traditional hotels overfill quickly during high season. Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2022 The city’s best practices are not to overfill the barns and that the salt is pushed back into the barns and away from the doors. Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Feb. 2022 The tricks are to not overfill the leaves, to roll them tightly and to approach each one with utter confidence. Yasmin Khan, WSJ, 12 May 2021 But don't be tempted to overfill, as your pie may crack and filling may come spilling out during the baking process. Meredith Deeds Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 10 Mar. 2021 The system works quite well as long as the user doesn’t overfill the pack, either by packing a bino that’s too large or by stuffing too many items in the interior pockets. John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 4 Nov. 2020 Car sales plummeted in the spring, causing shipment lots to overfill and forcing cargo ships to hold new vehicles at sea for weeks. Fortune, 20 Sep. 2020 By adding long text strings in the file, attackers can overfill the memory space allotted for the file and cause malicious code to spill into other parts of memory, where it then is executed. Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 29 July 2020 See More Word History
First Known Use
13th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense
overfills
verb
1
as in overloads
to fill or load to excess overfilled the wheelbarrow with bricks until finally no one could push it Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- overloads
- loads
- overcharges
- overburdens
- stuffs
- burdens
- weights
- charges
- weighs down
- encumbers
- saddles
- ladens
- lumbers
- lades
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- unloads
- lightens
- unburdens
2
as in spills
to flow over the brim or top of water overfilled the tub and poured onto the floor Synonyms & Similar Words
- spills
- floods
- overflows
- flushes
- engulfs
- flows
- submerges
- sluices
- pours
- inundates
- overwhelms
- gushes
- boils over
- runs over
- streams
- deluges
- spurts
- spouts
- drowns
- swamps
- sloshes
- slops
- cascades
- brims
- submerses
- washes (over)
- wells (up)
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- recedes