dictionary definitions for "overflowing"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  overflowing
      adj 1: overfull with water; "swollen rivers and creeks" [syn:
             flooding, {in flood(p)}, swollen]
      2: 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]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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