Overflowing
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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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from
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
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