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Overflowing   /ˈoʊvərflˌoʊɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Overflowing  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."


verb
Overflow  v. t.  (past overflowed; past part. overflown; pres. part. overflowing)  
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."
2.
To flow over the brim of; to fill more than full.


Overflow  v. i.  (past overflowed; past part. overflown; pres. part. overflowing)  
1.
To run over the bounds.
2.
To be superabundant; to abound.





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"Overflowing" Quotes from Famous Books



... novelist, overflowing with creative force, is to scatter the interest. In both his major works Tolstoi found the temptation too strong for him. Anna Karenina is not one novel, but two, and suffers accordingly. As for War and Peace, the reader wanders about in it as in a forest, for days, lost, deprived of a sense ...
— The Author's Craft • Arnold Bennett
... ladies' pardon—you'll have to drink this toast, and all the other toasts, in lemonade, ginger beer, soda water, seltzer, zoedone, tea, coffee, or cold water, all of which wholesome beverages have been supplied in overflowing abundance to this fallen world, and are to be ...
— The Young Trawler • R.M. Ballantyne
... possible, and the water falls below the dam crest at the outlet of the lake only when the dam opens in dry seasons and makes it necessary. Under such conditions there is no certainty that storage capacity will be available during the time of a great storm, and in fact Greenwood Lake has been overflowing at the commencement of the storms which caused both of the ...
— The Passaic Flood of 1903 • Marshall Ora Leighton
... winter rains had begun early in January, rendered the roads execrable, and the Savannah River became so swollen that it filled its many channels, overflowing the vast extent of rice-fields that lay on the east bank. This flood delayed our departure two weeks; for it swept away our pontoon-bridge at Savannah, and came near drowning John E. Smith's division of the Fifteenth Corps, with several heavy trains of wagons that were en route from ...
— The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete • William T. Sherman
... corrosion may be spilled on the battery when hydrometer readings are taken. It may also be the result of filling the cells too full, with subsequent expansion and overflowing as the temperature of the electrolyte increases during charge. Loose vent caps may allow electrolyte to be thrown out of the cell by the motion of the car on the road. A poorly sealed battery allows electrolyte to be thrown out through the cracks left between the sealing ...
— The Automobile Storage Battery - Its Care And Repair • O. A. Witte


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