overfall

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A turbulent section of a body of water, caused by strong currents passing over submerged ridges.
2. isim Part of a garment that hangs so as to cover a lower part.
3. fiil To fall on or spill over so as to cover (something).

   “But her laugh stuck in her throat, for at that moment a shadow overfell the two houses”

4. fiil To change or affect so as to pervade (something); to come over

   “From thence King Hakon proceeded up the Dovrefield; but as he was going over the mountains he road all day after a ptarmigan, which flew up beside him , and in this chase a sickness overfell him, which ended in his death ; and he died on the mountains.”

5. fiil To fall over; to spill from an edge or height.

   “A dam fitted between the sixth control group and the first insected group caused the water to overfall into the lower series and thereby prevented upstream movement of infective cysts.”

6. fiil To fall over; to topple.

   “Then back-toppling, crashing back – a dead weight flung out to wrack, Horse and riders overfell.”