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overflowing

English

Pronunciation

Noun

overflowing (plural overflowings)

  1. overflow
    • 1829, Josiah Conder, The Modern Traveler (page 205)
      the great overflowings and recedings of the waters

Verb

overflowing

  1. present participle of overflow

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overwhelming

English

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /?o?v??(h)w?lm??/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???v??w?lm??/

Verb

overwhelming

  1. present participle of overwhelm

Adjective

overwhelming (comparative more overwhelming, superlative most overwhelming)

  1. Overpowering, staggering, or irresistibly strong.
    • The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades.
  2. Very great or intense.
  3. Extreme.

Antonyms

  • underwhelming

Derived terms

  • overwhelmingly
  • overwhelmingness

Translations

Noun

overwhelming (plural overwhelmings)

  1. A situation of being overwhelmed.
    • 2013, David Ford, Theology: A Very Short Introduction (page 9)
      They have centuries of premodern experience in coping with being overwhelmed in multiple ways—not only by God, but also by other overwhelmings that have always been part of the human condition, such as disease, famine, war []

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