overflush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overflushes
form: overflushing
form: overflushed
form: overflushed
Etymology: From over- + flush.
Senses: examples: text: It is a bad plan to overflush ewes, as they usually suffer more from loss of flesh during winter. The best plan is to get them fleshy, and then keep them thriving whilst with the ram.
ref: 1894, Henry J. Webb, Advanced Agriculture, page 537:
text: It is possible to overflush the casing and render it difficult to use. Too much soaking or flushing, or the use of water that is too hot, will remove some of the natural oils from the casings.
ref: 1988, Albert Marchant Pearson, Thayne R. Dutson, Edible Meat By-products, page 267:
text: As part of the clean-up operations which took place on November 1, they were found guilty of having overflushed the scene of the accident during clearance work, which caused additional pollution of the Rhine.
ref: 1996, Annual Survey of International & Comparative Law, page 108:
text: Catheter care includes flushing with 0.2-0.4 mL sterile heparinized saline every 6-8 hours if an infusion is not being administered through the needle. It is important not to overflush the system in small animals, causing systemic heparinization.
ref: 2014, Etienne Cote, Clinical Veterinary Advisor, page 1183:
glosses: To flush to excess.
To flood with too much liquid while cleansing.
examples: text: No substance goes out from you by perspiration, except the noxious matter that you ought to get rid of; and you might as well ask if the dinners of a city might not be diminished were its sewers overflushed.
ref: 1865, David Urquhart, John Fife, Manual of the Turkish Bath, page 21:
text: Again, children are more exposed to sewer-poisoning because they are kept indoors during "bad weather," just when the gases are rising into the house from the overflushed sewers.
ref: 1879, The Journal of the British Homoeopathic Society - Volume 8, page 584:
text: It is possible to overflush, and so injure the sewers.
ref: 1880, Report of the Fourth Congress of the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, page 142:
glosses: To flush to excess.
To flush too many toilets.
examples: text: But Men when overflush'd with Drink, Are feldom capable to think.
ref: 1725, Weighley, alias Wild, page 8:
text: I've seen that fiend-law's introduction, In spite of Fielden, Stanhope , Oastler and the good: – Its mildest aim, murder and seduction, To overflush our streets with agony and blood!
ref: 1839, George Robert Wythen Baxter, Don Juan Junior: A Poem, page 64:
text: The protesting sects have pulled Him out of the shrine, smashing it in violent bitterness of hatred: they have overflushed Him with lusty blood, made Him hail-fellow walking amongst men, and they have brought Him into intimate hobnobbery with the multitude;
ref: 1915, Katrina Trask, The Mighty and the Lowly, page 8:
text: But my interest in it is that I do not want to see the Commodity Credit Corporation flushing into an already overflushed market additional oil which only serves to help certain of the secondary processing companies, such as some of the large, oh, the companies that make this syntetic lard, what have you -- [laughter] you know, the vegetable oil.
ref: 1959, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President's Farm Message, 1959, page 242:
glosses: To flush to excess.
To flood or inundate.
examples: text: […] still they have a fragrance of nature about them, and a freshness, such as Scottish noses snuff up from bleak moors and green fields, envying not at all the strong aroma that flows from exuberant fields overflushed with the living gold and purple of a rich tropical vegetation.
ref: 1854, The North British Review - Volume 20, page 149:
text: A listening, longing silence fell Upon the elm-trees like a spell Of expectation and desire, And quick I saw the impulsive fire Of sunset overflush the white And waiting clouds with rosy light;
ref: 1872, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, The Poets and Poetry of America, page 666:
text: I went down on the wide beach, where nobody was, because the stretches of sand are wet and chalky, and the rocks are rough and pooly -- only three shrimpers waded along the wonderful outspreading ruffling water, pushing their great nets before them, stopping, picking out the little objects, and moving on again through the marvellous green light overflushed with ruddy gleams.
ref: 2008, Jack Stewart, Color, Space, and Creativity, page 74:
glosses: To flush over.
To cover with or suffuse with a tinge or glow of color.
examples: text: When Bernard de Avelyne concluded his ballad of Chivalry, the brightness that overflushed his face became gradually darker, his palsied hands forsook the harp, he buried his face in his hands and his hoary hair, and seemed to labour under that bodily as well as mental depression which sometimes succeeds sudden unwonted exertion.
ref: 1820 December, “Recollections of Mark Macrabin, The Cameronian”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 8, page 328:
text: When first perceived Is there no sweet strife to forget, to change, To overflush those blemishes with all The glow of general goodness they disturb ?
ref: 1868, Robert Browning, Pauline. Paracelsus. Strafford., page 129:
text: It does not defy death and futurity, for a doubt of its kingship over them never overflushed the majestic havir of its serene countenance.
ref: 1902, James Russell Lowell, Early Prose Writings of James Russell Lowell, page 164:
text: But look, they change, they seem to overflush.
ref: 1916 October, Agnes Lee, “Red Pearls”, in The International, volume 10, number 10, page 310:
glosses: To flush over.
To cover the face with blushing or a flush.
examples: text: Men, it is true, have probably far exceeded them in the actual amount of verse overflushed with feeling which they have created.
ref: 1865, F.T. Palgrave, “Women and the Fine Arts”, in Macmillan's Magazine, volume 12, page 214:
text: Religion has evanished from this late Renaissance art, nor has the afterglow of Guido Reni's hectic piety yet overflushed it.
ref: 1898, John Addington Symonds, Horatio Forbes Brown, Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, page 86:
glosses: To flush over.
To suffuse.
examples: text: As Eloquence vpon a trotting nagge Out-ambles Wisdom in a morris daunce, Or as the waves doe overflush the crag — Gie rocks of fortune on the shores of Fraunce;
ref: 1867, M.T., “The Inquirer”, in The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, page 224:
text: The acute, infectious cold, which is the basis of much later infection, could be rendered a far less potent cause of disorganization if all schoolrooms were overflushed with open air night and day.
ref: 1915, Boston Medical and Surgical Journal - Volume 173, Issue 1, page 241:
glosses: To flush over.
To wash over.
examples: text: Overflush with 150 barrels of water .
ref: 1980, Margaret K. Luther, Proceedings of the Technical Sessions, page 18:
text: The larger volume of crude was pumped in an attempt to overflush the fracture as effectively as possible.
ref: 1995, Proceedings, International Meeting on Petroleum Engineering, page 63:
text: But it is still recommended not to overflush in horizontal wells as there could be loss in near wellbore conductivity.
ref: 2019, Hoss Belyadi, Ebrahim Fathi, Fatemeh Belyadi, Hydraulic Fracturing in Unconventional Reservoirs, page 68:
glosses: To force overflush into a system in order to clear out the active fluids.