From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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]
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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