to overflow

Examples

• All

• We are different from other people, lacking in certain qualities, overflowing in others.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Our newest students overflowing with promise, source of all creation.

  Stanford

• And they overflow, they give to others in friendship because they see that as a good thing.

• And, and, and be able to have your financial cup overflow, have multiple income streams.

• This is if you allow your humanity to overflow, the divine will happen.

  The Rich Dad Channel

• His heart overflows with the kindness of which this world is not worthy of.

  The Old Guard (2020)

• My energy is boundless, my joy overflowing at being free to run in the street.

  Fiction book (2001)

• The world is just overflowing with beauty and majesty and transcendence.

• Vera gazed at her with overflowing love and said, "I knew that you would come."

  Fiction book (1993)

• Her happiness was so intense that it seemed to overflow in her smile.

Synonyms

S

to spill over

vsto overflow

3 5.3

To feel an emotion so strongly that you show it openly

is full of feeling and obvious but does not imply outward spreading

B

to bubble over

vsto overflow

2 4.7

To be so full of strong feeling or excitement that you show it clearly

is full of feeling and obvious to others but not necessarily bursting out

B

to brim over

vsto overflow

3.6

To flow over the edge when a container or feeling is too full

is about emotional fullness obvious to others rather than physical spilling

Antonyms

R

to restrain

72 4.6

Keep strong feelings under control so you do not act on them

Compounds

O

overflow incontinence

• Specialized

7.4

The bladder becomes too full and slowly leaks urine because it cannot empty

How Emotional

burst

57 3.5

to overflow

30 4.1

to well up

23 5.2

moved

3.6

touched

3.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology