overflowing

4 definitions found

overflowing - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Overflow \O`ver*flow"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overflowed; p. pr.
     & vb. n. Overflowing.] [AS. oferfl?wan. See Over, and
     Flow.]
     1. To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other
        fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm.
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              The northern nations overflowed all Christendom.
                                                    --Spenser.
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     2. To flow over the brim of; to fill more than full.
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  Overflowing \O`ver*flow"ing\, n.
     An overflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness.
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           He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full
           mind on anybody who would start a subject. --Macaulay.
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overflowing - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  overflowing
      adj 1: covered with water; "the main deck was afloat (or
             awash)"; "the monsoon left the whole place awash"; "a
             flooded bathroom"; "inundated farmlands"; "an overflowing
             tub" [syn: afloat(p), awash(p), flooded,
             inundated, overflowing]

overflowing - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  126 Moby Thesaurus words for "overflowing":
     abounding, abundant, affluent, alive with, all-sufficing, ample,
     aplenty, bloated, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bristling,
     bursting, choked, congested, copious, countless, crammed, crawling,
     crowded, crowding, diffuse, diffusive, distended, drenched, effuse,
     effusive, epidemic, exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, fat,
     fecund, fertile, filled to overflowing, flush, formless, full,
     galore, generous, glutted, gorged, gushing, gushy, hyperemic,
     in plenty, in profusion, in quantity, in spate, inexhaustible,
     jam-packed, jammed, lavish, liberal, luxuriant, many, maximal,
     much, multitudinous, numerous, opulent, overabundant, overblown,
     overburdened, overcharged, overfed, overfraught, overfreighted,
     overfull, overladen, overloaded, overstocked, overstuffed,
     oversupplied, overweighted, packed, plenitudinous, plenteous,
     plentiful, plenty, pleonastic, plethoric, populous, prevailing,
     prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, proliferating,
     prolific, rampant, ready to burst, redundant, reiterative,
     repetitive, replete, rich, rife, riotous, running over, satiated,
     saturated, stuffed, stuffed up, superabundant, supercharged,
     supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swarming, swollen,
     tautologous, teeming, thick, thick as hail, thick with,
     thick-coming, thronged, thronging, wealthy, well-found,
     well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale