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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
overflow
over·flow [overflow overflows overflowed overflowing] verb, noun
verb BrE [ˌəʊvəˈfləʊ] ; NAmE [ˌoʊvərˈfloʊ]
1. intransitive, transitive to be so full that the contents go over the sides
•The bath is overflowing
•~ with sth Plates overflowed with party food.
• (figurative)Her heart overflowed with love.
•~ sth The river overflowed its banks.
2. intransitive ~ (with sth) (of a place)to have too many people in it
•The streets were overflowing with the crowds.
•The hospitals are filled to overflowing (= with patients).
3. intransitive, transitive ~ (into sth) | ~ (sth) to spread beyond the limits of a place or container that is too full
•The meeting overflowed into the street.
Verb forms: 
Word Origin:
Old English oferflōwan (see ↑over-, ↑flow).
Example Bank:
•His bag was overflowing with clothes.
•The chemicals overflowed from their storage tank.
•The river had overflowed into the fields.
•If it keeps raining the river could overflow its banks.
•The bath is overflowing!
noun BrE [ˈəʊvəfləʊ] ; NAmE [ˈoʊvərfloʊ]
1. uncountable, singular a number of people or things that do not fit into the space available
•A new office block was built to accommodate the overflow of staff.
•an overflow car park
2. uncountable, singular the action of liquid flowing out of a container, etc. that is already full; the liquid that flows out
•an overflow of water from the lake
• (figurative)an overflow of powerful emotions
3. (also ˈoverflow pipe)countable a pipe that allows extra liquid to escape
4. countable, usually singular (computing)a fault that happens because a number or data item (for example, the result of a calculation) is too large for the computer to represent it exactly
Word Origin:
Old English oferflōwan (see ↑over-, ↑flow).
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