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overflowing
 
Adjective overflowing has 2 senses
  1. flooding, in flood, overflowing, swollen - overfull with water; "swollen rivers and creeks"
    Antonym: low (indirect, via high)
  2. afloat, awash, flooded, inundated, overflowing - 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"
    Antonym: empty (indirect, via full)
Verb overflow has 2 senses
  1. overflow, overrun, well over, run over, brim over - flow or run over (a limit or brim)
    --1 is one way to spill, run out
    Derived forms: noun overflow2, noun overflow1
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
  2. bubble over, overflow, spill over - overflow with a certain feeling; "The children bubbled over with joy"; "My boss was bubbling over with anger"
    --2 is one way to seethe, boil
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
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