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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Overflowing \O'ver*flow"ing\, noun 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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Overflow \O'ver*flow"\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
overflowing
adjective
1: overfull with water; "swollen rivers and creeks" [syn: {flooding}, {in flood(p)}, {swollen}]
2: 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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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