OVERFLOWING
awash, afloat(p), flooded, inundated, overflowing
(adjective) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
overflowing (plural overflowings)
overflow
Verb
overflowing
present participle of overflow
Source: Wiktionary
O`ver*flow"ing, n.
Definition: An overflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness. He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full mind on anybody who would start a subject. Macaulay.
OVERFLOW
O`ver*flow", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overflowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Overflowing.] Etym: [AS. oferfl. 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. The northern nations overflowed all Christendom. Spenser.
2. To flow over the brim of; to fill more than full.
O`ver*flow", v. i.
1. To run over the bounds.
2. To be superabundant; to abound. Rogers.
O"ver*flow`, n.
1. A flowing over, as of water or other fluid; an inundation. Bacon.
2. That which flows over; a superfluous portion; a superabundance. Shak.
3. An outlet for the escape of surplus liquid. Overflow meeting, a meeting constituted of the surplus or overflow of another audience.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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