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OVERFILL
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they overfill ... he / she / it overfills
Past simple: overfilled
Past participle: overfilled
-ing form: overfilling
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fill beyond capacity
Example:
overfill the baskets
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "overfill" is one way to...):
fill; fill up; make full (make full, also in a metaphorical sense)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something with something
