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Overfill   /ˈoʊvərfˌɪl/   Listen
Overfill

verb
1.
Fill beyond capacity.






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"Overfill" Quotes from Famous Books



... during the first month, because a healthy baby is very difficult to wake up, even to be fed, during the first few weeks of life. It is absolutely essential, however, that it should be wakened: otherwise the tendency to overfill the stomach at the next feeding will lead to indigestion ...
— The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • W. Grant Hague

... see, they were Mothers, not in our sense of helpless involuntary fecundity, forced to fill and overfill the land, every land, and then see their children suffer, sin, and die, fighting horribly with one another; but in the sense of Conscious Makers of People. Mother-love with them was not a brute passion, a mere "instinct," a wholly personal feeling; ...
— Herland • Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman

... a greater place, you simply grow greater and they cannot keep you down. You do not ask for promotion, you compel promotion. You grow greater, enlarge your dimensions, develop new capabilities, do more than you are paid to do—overfill your place, and you shake up to a ...
— The University of Hard Knocks • Ralph Parlette

... warned, but probably did not believe in the possibility of an opposition school; and really there were children enough in the place to overfill both her room and that which was fitted up after a very humble fashion in one of our cottages. H.M. Inspector would hardly have thought it even worth condemnation any more than the attainments of the mistress, the young widow of a small ...
— Chantry House • Charlotte M. Yonge

... fill the air on a certain evening once a year, and which are snapped at by the fishes so ravenously that many of these die of repletion; the conical heaps of small stones on the river-shallows, one of which heaps will sometimes overfill a cart,—these heaps the huge nests of small fishes; the birds which frequent the stream, heron, duck, sheldrake, loon, osprey; the snake, musk-rat, otter, woodchuck, and fox, on the banks; the turtle, frog, hyla, and cricket, which make the banks vocal,—were all known to him, and, as ...
— Excursions • Henry D. Thoreau



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