In some years the river overswells its banks, causing widespread flooding.
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Overswell
//əʊvəˈswɛl//
Synonyms for "overswell" (3 found)
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Let floods o’erswell, and fiends for food howl on!
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Fill, Lucius, till the wine o’erswell the cup;
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Come, you have made mee resolute and bould, And now receive your lapps ore-swell’d with gold.
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