overflow ((v.))

Esp. North

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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of water in rivers and lakes, rise under pressure of expansion through cracks and fissures to cover the ice on the surface.

Quotations

1901

Day and the other returned at once lest the river should overflow and render the ice trail impassable.

1940

The colder it is, the more the river freezes to the bottom, and consequently the more it overflows.