Meaning of OVERFLOWING
| Pronunciation: | | 'owvurfl`owing
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- [adj] 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"
- [adj] overfull with water; "swollen rivers and creeks"
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| | Synonyms: | | afloat(p), awash(p), flooded, flooding, full, high, in flood(p), inundated, swollen |
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| | Definition: | | \O`ver*flow"ing\, n.
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.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, jammed, jam-packed, 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 |
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