overflowing

  • 1Overflowing — O ver*flow ing, n. An overflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness. [1913 Webster] He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full mind on anybody who would start a subject. Macaulay. [1913 Webster] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 2overflowing — index cataclysm, copious, demonstrative (expressive of emotion), excess, excessive, full, inordinate, profuse …

    Law dictionary

  • 3Overflowing — 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. [1913… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 4overflowing — Synonyms and related words: abounding, abundant, affluent, alive with, all sufficing, ample, aplenty, bloated, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bristling, bursting, choked, congested, copious, countless, crammed, crawling, crowded, crowding,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 5overflowing — 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 • Syn: ↑afloat, ↑awash, ↑ …

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  • 6overflowing — noun overflow …

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  • 7overflowing — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. abundant, in God s plenty, plenteous, bountiful; see plentiful 2 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Full to the point of flowing over: awash, big, brimful, brimming. See BIG, RICH …

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  • 8overflowing — n. spillage; abundance, plenitude; surplus, extra; malfunction in which a program tries to store data when there is no free space in the memory (Computers) v. spill over, be filled to the point of flowing over; fill to the point of running over …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 9overflowing — a. Abundant, copious, exuberant …

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  • 10overflowing waters — <u>See</u> flood waters …

    Ballentine's law dictionary