Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to overswell
Participle: overswelled
Gerund: overswelling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | overswell |
| you | overswell |
| he;she;it | overswells |
| we | overswell |
| you | overswell |
| they | overswell |
Perfect
| I | have overswelled |
| you | have overswelled |
| he;she;it | has overswelled |
| we | have overswelled |
| you | have overswelled |
| they | have overswelled |
Past
| I | overswelled |
| you | overswelled |
| he;she;it | overswelled |
| we | overswelled |
| you | overswelled |
| they | overswelled |
Pluperfect
| I | had overswelled |
| you | had overswelled |
| he;she;it | had overswelled |
| we | had overswelled |
| you | had overswelled |
| they | had overswelled |
Future
| I | will overswell |
| you | will overswell |
| he;she;it | will overswell |
| we | will overswell |
| you | will overswell |
| they | will overswell |
Future Perfect
| I | will have overswelled |
| you | will have overswelled |
| he;she;it | will have overswelled |
| we | will have overswelled |
| you | will have overswelled |
| they | will have overswelled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | overswell |
| you | overswell |
| he;she;it | overswell |
| we | overswell |
| you | overswell |
| they | overswell |
Perfect
| I | have overswelled |
| you | have overswelled |
| he;she;it | have overswelled |
| we | have overswelled |
| you | have overswelled |
| they | have overswelled |
Imperfect
| I | overswelled |
| you | overswelled |
| he;she;it | overswelled |
| we | overswelled |
| you | overswelled |
| they | overswelled |
Pluperfect
| I | had overswelled |
| you | had overswelled |
| he;she;it | had overswelled |
| we | had overswelled |
| you | had overswelled |
| they | had overswelled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would overswell |
| you | would overswell |
| he;she;it | would overswell |
| we | would overswell |
| you | would overswell |
| they | would overswell |
Perfect
| I | would have overswelled |
| you | would have overswelled |
| he;she;it | would have overswelled |
| we | would have overswelled |
| you | would have overswelled |
| they | would have overswelled |
Imperative
| you | overswell |
| we | Let's overswell |
| you | overswell |
Verbs conjugated like 'overswell'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'overswell'
oversell,
overspell,
overwell,
overquell,
overseal,
oversweep,
overtell,
outswell,
overawe,
overbill,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From over- + swell.
Sample Sentences
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In some years the river overswells its banks, causing widespread flooding.
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Let floods o’erswell, and fiends for food howl on! [1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:]
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Fill, Lucius, till the wine o’erswell the cup; [1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:]
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Come, you have made mee resolute and bould,
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And now receive your lapps ore-swell’d with gold. [1636, Thomas Heywood, Loves Maistresse, London: John Crowch, act I, scene 1:]
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1768, Ignatius Sancho, letter to Mr. M—, in Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, London: J. Nichols, 3rd edition, 1784, p. 13,
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[…] the heart gratefully throbbing—overswelled with thankful sensations
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When mushrooms they were fairy bowers,
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Their marble pillars over-swelling, [1835, John Clare, “Decay”, in The Rural Muse, London: Whittaker, page 60:]
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[…] then Badoglio and his staff [went by] looking rather big for their cars, like the necks of bookmakers overswelling their collars; [1942, G. L. Steer, chapter 2, in Sealed and Delivered,, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 14:]
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[…] 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. [1729, Jonathan Swift, “Maxims Controlled in Ireland”, in The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, volume 15, London: W. Johnston, published 1765, page 243:]
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1885, Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, The Burton Club, Volume 1, Translator’s Foreward, p. xvi,
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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.
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A frequent difficulty in the manufacture of Emmental cheese in America, and perhaps elsewhere, is a tendency for the cheese to overswell. [1923, “Proceedings of the World’s Dairy Congress”, in Session, volume 1, 7, p. 289:]
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[The monster’s] ungrateful progeny rush to gorge on her blood, but it overswells their bellies and they literally burst to death. [1998, Pamela Norris, chapter 10, in Eve: A Biography, New York: New York University Press, page 322:]