overswell means an excessive or sudden increase or flood (of something). Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
overswell is pronounced /ˈəʊvəswɛl/.
Etymology
From over- + swell.
noun
- An excessive or sudden increase or flood (of something).“[The trial] drew a crowd […] that almost stormed the City Hall corridors. Three policement were needed to keep back the overswell.”
verb
- To swell or rise above (something, especially the rim of a container, the sides of something hollow, etc.).“In some years the river overswells its banks, causing widespread flooding.”
- To cause (something) to be too swollen or large; to become too swollen or large.“[…] 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.”