overswell

1. (ambitransitive) To swell or rise above (something, especially the rim of a container, the sides of something hollow, etc.).Examples: "In some years the river overswells its banks, causing widespread flooding."; "Let floods o’erswell, and fiends for food howl on!"; "Fill, Lucius, till the wine o’erswell the cup;"Synonyms: overflow, spill overambitransitive

2. (ambitransitive) To cause (something) to be too swollen or large; to become too swollen or large.Examples: "[…] 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."; "1885, Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, The Burton Club, Volume 1, Translator’s Foreward, p. xvi, 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."; "A frequent difficulty in the manufacture of Emmental cheese in America, and perhaps elsewhere, is a tendency for the cheese to overswell."ambitransitive