OVERFLOWING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does overflowing mean? 

• OVERFLOWING (adjective)
  The adjective OVERFLOWING has 1 sense:

1. covered with water

  Familiarity information: OVERFLOWING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERFLOWING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Covered with water

Synonyms:

afloat; awash; flooded; inundated; overflowing

Context example:

an overflowing tub

Similar:

full (containing as much or as many as is possible or normal)

 Context examples 

Of the lady's sensations they remained a little in doubt; but that the gentleman was overflowing with admiration was evident enough.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Your truelove house has been overflowing with positive energy ever since lucky Jupiter entered in early December, and especially now, with Mars here until March 30.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

She in the overflowing spirits of her recovery, repeats it all to her nurse; and the nurse knowing my acquaintance with you, very naturally brings it all to me.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

But the overflowing misery I now felt, and the excess of agitation that I endured rendered me incapable of any exertion.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Her heart was overflowing with tenderness.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Warmed by the sight of such a friend to her son, and regulated by the wish of appearing to advantage before him, she was overflowing with gratitude—artless, maternal gratitude—which could not be unpleasing.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The carter was forced at last to leave his cart behind him, and to go home overflowing with rage and vexation.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

From these basins the water is continually exhaled by the sun in the daytime, which effectually prevents their overflowing.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Also, there were horns, and dolls, and toys of various sorts, and parcels and bundles of candies and nuts that filled the arms of all the Silvas to overflowing.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The study’s projections say warming-induced glacial melts will spike dangerously, increasing river flows, between 2050 and 2060, exacerbating the risk of high-altitude glacial lakes overflowing and, consequently, flooding communities.

(Bulk of Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2100, SciDev.Net)