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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overflood .
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Examples
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I made computations for that case and water from southern hemisphere was sucked on northern part of globe such way, that even Ararat could been overflooded.
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These trees were overflooded for some weeks and after that the soil was oversaturated with water, resulting in wilting and decline.
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The US might get overflooded with distressingly ugly looking people like Shakira, Salma Hayek, or the horror!
Think Progress » Buchanan: Mexico Conspiring To ‘Re-Annex’ Seven Southwest States 2006
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Nella-Rose bent over her sleeping child, and a wave of compassion overflooded her thought.
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There were great bottoms that gave evidence of having recently been overflooded, though now covered with cottonwood trees, gorgeous in their autumn foliage.
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She was floating in smooth water now, perhaps far on the overflooded fields.
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Then Jerusalem was all begirt and overflooded with song.
Vergilius A Tale of the Coming of Christ Irving Bacheller 1904
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Soon a purple dusk had overflooded the hills and risen above the splendor of Jerusalem.
Vergilius A Tale of the Coming of Christ Irving Bacheller 1904
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The sexual discussion became the favourite topic; the girls learned to look out for their safety: and it was probably only a chance that at the same time a wave of immorality overflooded the youth of Berlin.
Psychology and Social Sanity Hugo M��nsterberg 1889
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The Asiatic wave had been rolled back from the banks of the Nile, and Egyptian conquest and culture had overflooded Asia as far as the Euphrates.
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