overflowing Meaning, Definition & Usage
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verb flow or run over (a limit or brim)
run over; overflow; well over; brim over; overrun.
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verb overflow with a certain feeling
bubble over; spill over; overflow.
- The children bubbled over with joy
- My boss was bubbling over with anger
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adjective satellite covered with water
flooded; awash; afloat; inundated.
- the main deck was afloat (or awash)
- the monsoon left the whole place awash
- a flooded bathroom
- inundated farmlands
- an overflowing tub
WordNet
O`ver*flow"ing noun
Definitions
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.