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overflowingverbpresent participle of overflow to flow over the brim or top ofwhile the wine steward stood there gawking at the nearby celebrity, my expensive champagne was overflowing its glass and pouring onto our table overfilling boiling over, running over, spilling, welling (up)flowing, flushing, gushing, pouring, sluicing, spouting, spurting, streamingdeluging, drowning, engulfing, flooding, inundating, overwhelming, submerging, submersing, swampingwashing (over)brimming, cascading, slopping, sloshing receding to cover with a floodthe swollen river overflowed the surrounding land and washed several houses away deluging, drowning, engulfing, flooding, gulfing, inundating, overwhelming, submerging, submersing, swamping avalanching, smotheringovercoming, overrunningflowing, flushing, gushing, pouring, sluicing, spouting, spurting, streamingdousing(also dowsing), drenching, soaking, wetting draining dehydrating, drying, parching to be copiously supplieda magazine that usually overflows with home-repair tips for the do-it-yourselfer abounding, brimming, bristling, bulging, bursting, bustling, buzzing, crawling, humming, pullulating, swarming, teeming lacking, needing, wanting |