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Cramming vs Overflowing - What's the difference?

cramming | overflowing |

As verbs the difference between cramming and overflowing

is that cramming is while overflowing is .

As nouns the difference between cramming and overflowing

is that cramming is the act by which something is crammed, or stuffed full while overflowing is overflow.

cramming

English

Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is crammed, or stuffed full.
  • * Joseph Hall
    • Think not, that you can climbe vp to heauen with full panches, euer reaking of Indian smoak, & the surfetts of your gluttonous Crammings & Quaffings.
  • * 1838 , John Sanderson, Sketches of Paris: in familiar letters to his friends
    • In some parts of the house were all the comforts of elbowings, shufflings, crammings and squeezings, and on the outside all the racket that was possible of screaming women, and wrangling coachmen

    overflowing

    English

    Noun

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

    Verb

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