Overswell

In some years the river overswells its banks, causing widespread flooding.

Let floods o’erswell, and fiends for food howl on!

Fill, Lucius, till the wine o’erswell the cup;

Come, you have made mee resolute and bould, And now receive your lapps ore-swell’d with gold.

1768, Ignatius Sancho, letter to Mr. M—, in Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, London: J. Nichols, 3rd edition, 1784, p. 13, […] the heart gratefully throbbing—overswelled with thankful sensations

When mushrooms they were fairy bowers, Their marble pillars over-swelling,

[…] then Badoglio and his staff [went by] looking rather big for their cars, like the necks of bookmakers overswelling their collars;

[…] the rents of lands still grew higher upon every lease that expired, till they have arrived at the present exorbitance; when the frog, overswelling himself, burst at last.

1885, Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, The Burton Club, Volume 1, Translator’s Foreward, p. xvi, My annotations avoid only one subject, parallels of European folk-lore and fabliaux which, however interesting, would overswell the bulk of a book whose speciality is anthropology.

A frequent difficulty in the manufacture of Emmental cheese in America, and perhaps elsewhere, is a tendency for the cheese to overswell.

[The monster’s] ungrateful progeny rush to gorge on her blood, but it overswells their bellies and they literally burst to death.

[The trial] drew a crowd […] that almost stormed the City Hall corridors. Three policement were needed to keep back the overswell.

1983, Kenneth A. McClane, “From a Silent Center” in A Tree Beyond Telling, San Francisco: Black Scholar Press, p. 31, when no Jihad / opens the conceived / to distention, the reedy creek / to overswells / of mudwallow:

I could feel that my overswell of emotions had communicated itself to him.