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[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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
126 Moby Thesaurus words for "overflowing":
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,
jam-packed, jammed, 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