overflood

verb

1. (archaic)To flood.

   “On the 28th of March, the river overflooded the high pier along the Main, and rising higher and higher, began to come into the gates and alleys.”

   “Up and to church, my house being miserably overflooded with rayne last night, which makes me almost mad.”

2. To flood or fill completely; to overflow.

   “He may be entirely fascinated by the actions on the stage and yet his mind may be overflooded with other ideas.”

   “Then Jerusalem was all begirt and overflooded with song.”

   “The Negroes have been so industrious for the last decade that they have overflooded the cotton markets of the world, and consequently so reduced the price of this staple that the landlords are not disposed to feed hirelings through the winter, and the colored people, who have been fed from the stores under the mortgage system, getting all their food on time at two prices, and paying for the same in cotton in the fall at half price, find themselves in the end in debt and greatly discouraged.”

noun

1. A flood; an excess or superabundance.