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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. covered with water;
- Example: "the main deck was afloat (or awash)"
- Example: "the monsoon left the whole place awash"
- Example: "a flooded bathroom"
- Example: "inundated farmlands"
- Example: "an overflowing tub"
[syn: afloat(p), awash(p), flooded, inundated, overflowing]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]