overflowing Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb flow or run over (a limit or brim)
    run over; overflow; well over; brim over; overrun.
  2. verb overflow with a certain feeling
    bubble over; spill over; overflow.
    • The children bubbled over with joy
    • My boss was bubbling over with anger
  3. 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
  1. 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.

Webster 1913