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overflowing

over·flow·ing

Canada, US/ˌoʊvɚˈfloʊɪŋ/Canada, US/ˌovɚ-/

noun

What it means

  1. overflow

    the great overflowings and recedings of the waters

    1829, Josiah Conder, The Modern Traveler, page 205
    1 more example

    [T]hough he had, as it were, from the overflowings of his heart, given Sophia as a toast among the officers, where he thought it was impossible she should be known; yet, even there, the reader may remember how difficultly he was prevailed upon to mention her surname.

    1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

In a sentence

[T]hough he had, as it were, from the overflowings of his heart, given Sophia as a toast among the officers, where he thought it was impossible she should be known; yet, even there, the reader may remember how difficultly he was prevailed upon to mention her surname.

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Where it comes from

From overflow + -ing.

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