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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of overfill.

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Examples

  • WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Purdue University's effort to limit where people can smoke has sparked dozens of complaints and even a few fires in an overfilled receptacle, but university officials say they are still working out kinks in the system.

    Smoking Rules Irk Purdue Students The Indianapolis Star 2010

  • Maybe those elites could even attend the same public Universities with overfilled lecture halls as the common people that will never make it to the elite off any sector.

    Matthew Yglesias » Institutional Aspects of Regulatory Reform 2010

  • WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Purdue University's effort to limit where people can smoke has sparked dozens of complaints and even a few fires in an overfilled receptacle, but university officials say they are still working out kinks in the system.

    Smoking Rules Irk Purdue Students The Huffington Post News Editors 2010

  • WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Purdue University's effort to limit where people can smoke has sparked dozens of complaints and even a few fires in an overfilled receptacle, but university officials say they are still working out kinks in the system.

    Smoking Rules Irk Purdue Students The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Purdue University's effort to limit where people can smoke has sparked dozens of complaints and even a few fires in an overfilled receptacle, but university officials say they are still working out kinks in the system.

    Smoking Rules Irk Purdue Students The Indianapolis Star 2010

  • I was under the impression the lake refilled during the 2003 God-induced floods that devastated the Rio Lerma basin and caused extensive and terrible damage to agricultural lands in Guanajuato State and elsewhere which required that the water management agency release water downstream to prevent further flood damage from poorly managed and dangerously overfilled reservoirs.

    Water in Chapala 2009

  • "I don't want to hear about that anymore," responded John Ashcroft, one of the most unimpressive figures in an administration overfilled with inadequates, incompetents and ideologues.

    9/11 books round-up – review 2011

  • We pull the trash out of the bins and take it all back inside, arranging it into rows in our hallways, in piles out back, until the closets are overfilled and the walls are hidden.

    The Future and Why We are Afraid Kenton deAngeli 2011

  • Instead of concentrating on the task of guarding our country so that we are relatively safe to pursue our individual dreams, the politicians continue to empty the food canister into their overfilled containers and then expect “The Forgotten Man” to give them even more.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » An Apt Analogy 2010

  • WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Purdue University's effort to limit where people can smoke has sparked dozens of complaints and even a few fires in an overfilled receptacle, but university officials say they are still working out kinks in the system.

    Smoking Rules Irk Purdue Students The Huffington Post News Editors 2010

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