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Definition: Overflowing |
OverflowingAdjective1. Overfull with water; "swollen rivers and creeks". 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "overflowing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: OverflowingSynonyms: afloat(p) (adj), awash(p) (adj), flooded (adj), flooding (adj), in flood(p) (adj), inundated (adj), swollen (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Feeling | Phrase: the heart big, the heart full, the heart swelling, the heart beating, the heart pulsating, the heart throbbing, the heart thumping, the heart beating high, the heart melting, the heart overflowing, the heart bursting, the heart breaking; the heart goes out, a heart as big as all outdoors (sympathy). |
Lamentation | Phrase: tears standing in the eyes, tears starting from the eyes; eyes suffused, eyes swimming, eyes brimming, eyes overflowing with tears; "if you have tears prepare to shed them now"; interdum lacrymae pondera vocis habent; "strangled his language in his tears"; "tears such as angels weep". |
Redundancy | Crammed to overflowing, filled to overflowing; gorged, ready to burst; dropsical, turgid, plethoric; obese. |
Adjective: redundant; too much, too many; exuberant, inordinate, superabundant, excessive, overmuch, replete, profuse, lavish; prodigal; exorbitant; overweening; extravagant; overcharged; Verb: supersaturated, drenched, overflowing; running over, running to waste, running down. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Overflowing |
| English words defined with "overflowing": afloat, alive with, alluvion, awash ♦ clogging, crawling with, crowd ♦ deluge ♦ ebullience, enthusiasm, exuberance, Exundation ♦ flood, flooded ♦ hindering ♦ impeding, Inundant, inundated, inundation ♦ Landflood, liquid, liquified ♦ melted ♦ obstructive, overflowing with, overrun with ♦ Scaturient, Superflux, swarming with ♦ teeming with. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "overflowing": Cattermole Process, CONDENSER SETTER, Creek ♦ drill-hole returns ♦ Fill-dyke ♦ hydroseparator ♦ Interceptor Sewers, IRRIGATOR, VALVE PIPE ♦ launder separation process ♦ Montague fall, Montague type fall ♦ River ♦ stilling pool ♦ water cushion. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "overflowing": Superflux. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Zoos are full, prisons are overflowing oh my, how the world still dearly loves a cage (Harold and Maude; writing credit: Colin Higgins) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | An overflowing grocery bag spills out. Broccoli, pears, red kidney beans, peppers and tomatoes are on a wooden table in a tight shot. See artwork: PV-44. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | A two-hole, overflowing, fly-covered privy bench. / [P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Russell Lee].. |
 | Room overflowing with boxes of unsorted pharmaceuticals. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | An overflowing cotton house. Mileston Plantation, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Martin Luther | My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The Place de la Concorde, then become Place Louis XV. again, was overflowing with pleased promenaders |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | From these basins the water is continually exhaled by the sun in the daytime, which effectually prevents their overflowing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | In other words, since there's the opportunity here to pay more in taxes, this new fund ought to be overflowing, the liberals ought to be writing checks left and right to make themselves feel good. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Overflowing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Overflowing" is used about 144 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 87.5% | 126 | 28,512 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 11.11% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.39% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 144 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "overflowing": abounding inpredicate abounding withpredicate bristling withpredicate full ofpredicate overflowing overflowing withpredicate rich inpredicate rife withpredicate thick withpredicate ♦ crowded to overflowing ♦ eyes overflowing with tears ♦ full to overflowing ♦ overflowing anger ♦ overflowing with. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bra overflowing | 57 |
overflowing | 7 |
overflowing toilet | 6 |
overflowing tit | 5 |
overflowing gutter | 3 |
cup overflowing | 2 |
overflowing teacup | 2 |
overflowing pussy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "overflowing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | oortollig (superfluous). (various references) | |
Albanian | që derdhet jashtë skajit, i tejmbushur (overfull). (various references) | |
Arabic | فائض (excess, overabundant, overflow, spare, superabundant, superfluous, surplus), طافح (brimful, chock full, replete, sloppy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | препълнен (chock-a-block, cram full, full of, loaded), преизпълнен. (various references) | |
Chinese | 瀰漫 , 瀰 , 盎然 (abundant, exuberant, full), 溢出 (Overflow, Overflowed, Overflown, spill, spillage, Spilled, Spilling, spillover, Spilt). (various references) | |
Czech | zaplavený. (various references) | |
Danish | fyldt til randen (full to overflowing), artesisk boring (artesian well, free-flowing artesian well, overflowing artesian well). (various references) | |
Dutch | overtollig (superfluous), overbodig (superfluous). (various references) | |
Esperanto | superflua (superfluous). (various references) | |
Finnish | ylitsevuotava (exuberant). (various references) | |
French | inondé, débordé (overburdens, overcharges, overextends). (various references) | |
German | überströmend, überlaufend, überfließend. (various references) | |
Greek | ξέχειλοσ (chock full). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ברוץ (surplus). (various references) | |
Hungarian | túláradó (ebullient, effusive, exuberant, flush, lavish, luxuriant, profuse, redundant, rhapsodic). (various references) | |
Italian | traboccante, straripante, straripamento (overflow, spate), sovrabbondante (overabundant, redundant, superabundant), inondazione (flood, flooding, inundation, overflow). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鈴"り (crammed, loaded), 氾濫 (flood), 横溢 (inundation). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すずなり (crammed, loaded), おういつ (inundation), は"ら" (flood, insurrection, mutiny, rebellion, revolt, uprising). (various references) | |
Korean | "람 (flooding). (various references) | |
Manx | lhieent harrish, freaynagh (billowy, foaming, raging, roaring, surging, turbulent). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | overflowingay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | transbordar (boil over, deluge, flood, gush, overbrim, overflow, overrun, swim, waterlog), transbordante (pregnant), superabundante (overabundant, prolix, redundant, superabundant, superfluous, supervacaneous), super cheio, supérfluo (excrescent, needless, overabundant, redundant, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, supervacaneous, unnecessary, unwanted), exuberante (ebullient, exuberant, lush, luxuriant, luxurious, prodigal, rampant, rank), cheio (bursting, chock-full, complete, flush, fraught, full, overgrown, philoprogenitive, plump, prolific, rank, replete, round, stuffed, teeming, tumid). (various references) | |
Romanian | debordant (ebullient, gushing). (various references) | |
Russian | льющийся через край, переполненный (awash, chock full, chock-full, choke-full, crowded, full up, overbooked, overcrowded, overfull, replete, teeming). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prepun da se preliva, preobilan (lavish, overabundant, superabundant). (various references) | |
Spanish | rebosante (brimful, brimming, bustling), desbordante, desbordamiento (overflow, overlap, overspill). (various references) | |
Swedish | översvämmande. (various references) | |
Turkish | taşma (ebullition, gush, outburst, outpour, outpouring, overflow, surge), taşkınlık (abundance, boisterousness, ebullience, ebulliency, ebullition, effusion, excess, extravagance, exuberance, exuberancy, flush, frenzy, furor, furore, gush, intemperance, rampancy, transport), taşkın (boisterous, disorderly, ebullient, effusive, excessive, expansive, exuberant, flood, gushing, intemperate, rambunctious, rumbustious, volcanic), taşan (beetle, dripping, gushing, overspilling), su basma, coşkun (ardent, boiling over, ebullient, effervescent, elated, exalted, exuberant, fervent, frenzied, impetuous, rhapsodic, rhapsodical, sharp), bolluk (abundance, affluence, ampleness, amplitude, bonanza, copiousness, cornucopia, effusion, effusiveness, exuberance, exuberancy, fleshpot, fleshpots, flood, fullness, fulness, glut, handsomeness, horn of plenty, lashings, looseness, luxuriance, luxuriancy, opulence, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, plethora, prodigality, profuseness, profusion, prolificacy, prolificness, prosperity, rankness, richness, store, stores, superfluity, wealth, wideness, width), bereketli (abundant, copious, exuberant, fat, fecund, fertile, fruitful, generous, lush, luxuriant, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, productive, rank, rich). (various references) | |
Turkmen | pьrepьr (overcrowded). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | переповнений (chock full, crowded, flown, heaped, heaping, replete). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tr n đầy (brimful), sự tr n đầy (filling, repletion), sự chan chứa, chan chứa (cram-full, perfusive). (various references) | |
Welsh | llifeiriol (streaming), gorlifiad, cyforiog (brim-full). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abundans, abundantem, abundantes, abundanti, abundantia, abundantibus, abundantiorem, abundantiori, abundantissime, abundantium, abundantius, affluens, affluentes, inundantia, proluvies, redundantia, superfluus. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | vîkhzhârayeiñtîm. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 17, Verse 27 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Hsqion epinon egamoun exegamizonto acri hV hmeraV eishlqen nwe eiV thn kibwton kai hlqen o kataklusmoV kai apwlesen apantaV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Edebant et bibebant uxores ducebant et dabantur ad nuptias usque in diem qua intravit Noe in arcam et venit diluvium et perdidit omnes |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Hig ætun. and druncon. and wifodon. and wæron to gyftum gesealde: oð þæne dæg þe noe on erke eode. and flod com and ealle forspilde; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thei eeten and drunkun, weddiden wyues, and weren youun to weddyngis, til in to the dai in the whych Noe entride in to the schip; and the greet flood cam, and loste alle. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | They ate they dranke they maryed wyves and were maryed even vnto yt same daye yt Noe went into ye arke: and ye floud cam and destroyed the all. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark; and the flood came, and destroyed them all. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | They were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day of the overflowing of the waters, when Noah went into the ark, and they all came to destruction. |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 17, Verse 27 |
| Cebuano | Sila nanagpangaon, sila nanag-inom, sila nanagpangasawa ug nanagpamana, hangtud sa adlaw sa pagsulod ni Noe sa arka, ug ang lunop miabut ug niini gilaglag silang tanan. |
| Croatian | jeli su, pili, ženili se i udavali do dana kad Noa uðe u korablju. I doðe potop i sve uništi. |
| Danish | De spiste, drak, toge til Ægte, bleve bortgiftede indtil den Dag, da Noa gik ind i Arken, og Syndfloden kom og ødelagde alle. |
| Dutch | Zij aten, zij dronken, zij namen ten huwelijk, zij werden ten huwelijk gegeven, tot den dag, op welken Noach in de ark ging, en de zondvloed kwam, en verdierf ze allen. |
| Finnish | he söivät, joivat, naivat ja menivät miehelle, aina siihen päivään asti, jona Nooa meni arkkiin; ja vedenpaisumus tuli ja hukutti heidät kaikki. |
| German | sie aßen, sie tranken, sie freiten, sie ließen freien bis auf den Tag, da Noah in die Arche ging und die Sintflut kam und brachte sie alle um. |
| Haitian Creole | Moun t'ap manje, yo t'ap bwè, moun t'ap marye, yo t'ap marye pitit fi yo; se konsa tout bagay te ye, jouk jou Noe te antre nan gwo batiman an. Lè inondasyon an fèt, li touye yo tout. |
| Hungarian | Ettek, ittak, házasodtak, férjhezmentek mindama napig, a melyen Noé a bárkába beméne, és eljöve az özönvíz, és mindeneket elveszte. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang makan minum, dan kawin; begitulah terus-menerus sampai Nuh masuk ke dalam kapal dan banjir datang serta menewaskan orang-orang itu semua. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Orang makan minum, kawin dan dikawinkan sampai kepada hari Nuh masuk ke dalam bahtera, lalu air pun bahlah membinasakan sekaliannya. |
| Latvian | Tie çda un dzçra; precçja sievas un izdeva pie vîra lîdz pat tai dienai, kad Noass iegâja ðíirstâ; un tad nâca ûdensplûdi un iznîcinâja visu. |
| Maori | E kai ana ratou, e inu ana, e marena ana, e tukua ana ki te marena, taea noatia te ra i tomo ai a Noa ki te aaka, a, ko te putanga mai o te waipuke, na whakangaromia katoatia ratou. |
| Norwegian | de åt og drakk, de tok til ekte og blev gitt til ekte, like til den dag da Noah gikk inn i arken; så kom vannflommen og ødela dem alle sammen. |
| Portuguese | Comiam, bebiam, casavam e davam-se em casamento, até o dia em que Noé entrou na arca, e veio o dilúvio e os destruiu a todos. |
| Rumanian | mkncau, beau, se knsurau wi se mqritau pknq kn ziua cknd a intrat Noe kn corabie; wi a venit potopul wi i -a prqpqdit pe toyi. |
| Russian | ЕМЙ, ЙМЙ, ЦЕОЙМЙУШ, ЧЩИП"ЙМЙ ЪБНХЦ, "П ФПЗП "ОС, ЛБЛ ЧПЫЕМ оПК Ч ЛПЧЮЕЗ, Й ТЙЫЕМ ПФП Й ПЗХ'ЙМ ЧУЕИ. |
| Shuar | Yurumáwarmiayi, umararmiayi, nuatnaikiarmiayi, ni nawantri nuatnakat tusa surukarmiayi. Tumáa pujuiniai Nuái uunt kanunam enkempramtai, amaarak nu aentsnasha mash amuukarmiayi. |
| Swahili | Watu waliendelea kula na kunywa, kuoa na kuolewa mpaka wakati ule Noa alipoingia katika safina. Gharika ikatokea na kuwaangamiza wote. |
| Swedish | människorna åto och drucko, män togo sig hustrur, och hustrur gåvos åt män, ända till den dag då Noa gick in i arken; då kom floden och förgjorde dem allasammans. |
| Uma | Hi tempo nabi Nuh, tauna ntora ngkoni', nginu, rapoponcamoko pai' mepoponcamoko, kawae-kawae-na duu' -na nabi Nuh mesua' hi rala sakaya bohe pai' ue mowo' mpopatehi-ra omea. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"Overflowing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: o'erflowing, overflooring, overflown. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "overflowing" (pronounced ō"verflō'ing) |
| 4 | -l ō' i ng | glassblowing. |
| 3 | -ō' i ng | churchgoing, elbowing, farrowing, moviegoing, oceangoing, ongoing, outgoing, outgrowing, overthrowing, seagoing, tiptoeing, torpedoing, winnowing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-g-i-l-n-o-o-r-v-w" | |
-2 letters: flowering, overflown, reflowing. | |
-3 letters: flooring, florigen, forewing, forgiven, lowering, overflow, overlong, roofline, roweling, wingover. | |
-4 letters: flinger, flowing, fooling, foreign, forgive, forgone, fowling, goofier, loonier, overing, reflown, rolfing, roofing, violone, wolfing, woofing, woolier. | |
-5 letters: eloign, eringo, finger, flooie, florin, flower, forego, fowler, fringe, frivol, glover, glower, golfer, gooier, goonie, govern, groove, grovel, ignore, inflow, inwove. | |
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