Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: O-VER-ES'TI-MATE – O-VER-FOND'
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O-VER-ES'TI-MATE, n.
An estimate that is too high.
O-VER-ES'TI-MATE, v.t.
To estimate too highly.
O-VER-EX-CIT'ED, a.
Too much excited.
Excess of excitement.
O-VER-EYE', v.t.
- To superintend; to inspect. [Little used.]
- To observe; to remark. Shak.
O'VER-FALL, n.
A cataract; the fall of a river. Ralegh.
O-VER-FA-TIGUE', n. [overfatee'g.]
Excessive fatigue.
O-VER-FA-TIGUE', v.t. [overfatee'g.]
To fatigue to excess. Watts.
O-VER-FED', pp.
Fed to excess.
O-VER-FEED', v.t.
To feed to excess. Dryden.
O-VER-FILL', v.t.
To fill to excess; to surcharge. Dryden.
O-VER-FLOAT, v.t.
To overflow; to inundate. Dryden.
O-VER-FLOUR'ISH, v.t. [overflur'ish.]
To make excessive display or flourish. Collier.
O-VER-FLOW', n.
An inundation; also, superabundance. Bacon.
O-VER-FLOW', v.i.
- To run over; to swell and run over the brim or banks. Dryden.
- To be abundant; to abound; to exuberate; as, overflowing plenty. Rogers.
O-VER-FLOW, v.t.
- To spread over, as water; to inundate; to cover with water or other fluid.
- To fill beyond the brim.
- To deluge; to overwhelm; to cover, as with numbers. The northern nations overflowed all christendom. Spenser.
O-VER-FLOW'ED, pp.
Run or spread over, as water; deluged.
O-VER-FLOW'ING, a.
Abundant; copious; exuberant
O-VER-FLOW'ING, n.
Exuberance; copiousness. Denham.
O-VER-FLOW'ING, ppr.
Spreading over, as a fluid; inundating; running over the brim or banks.
O-VER-FLOW'ING-LY, adv.
Exuberantly; in great abundance. Boyle.
O-VER-FLUSH', v.t.
To flush to excess.
O-VER-FLUSH'ED, pp.
- Flushed to excess; reddened to excess.
- Elated to excess. Addison.
O-VER-FLY', v.t.
To pass over or cross by night. Dryden.
O-VER-FOND', a.
Fond to excess.