overstream

present singular third person overstreams · participle present overstreaming · participle past overstreamed · past overstreamed

1. To stream or flow over.

plural overstreams

1. countablerareuncountableAn excessive, steady flow, succession of something.

   I must have a definite mark by which to locate him in that rugged territory overstream.

   1942, Pennsylvania Game News 1942-06: Volume 13, Issue 3, Pennsylvania Game Commission, →ISBN, page 9

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   Water temperature can be altered with the removal of overstream canopy. Water temperatures can increase in summer and decrease in winter encouraging lethal anchor ice problems.

   1989, The Greater Yellowstone Postfire Assessment, Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee, page 84

   The day had open fair, but they had not sailed an hour before the sky was darkened, noisy wind was blowing in changing ways, and an overstream of air came down that was stinging, numbing cold.

   2001, Ernest Thompson Seton, Wild Animal Ways, International Law & Taxation Publishers, →ISBN, page 199