overflowing : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: overflowing	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for overflowing
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
overflowing 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" Synonym(s): afloat(p), awash(p), flooded, inundated, overflowing
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Overflowing \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. The northern nations overflowed all Christendom. --Spenser. 2. To flow over the brim of; to fill more than full.