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Overflowing is a related term of plethoric.


As a noun overflowing

is overflow.

As a verb overflowing

is .

As an adjective plethoric is

(medicine) suffering from plethora; ruddy in complexion, congested or swollen with blood.

overflowing

English

Noun

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

    Verb

    (head)

    • plethoric

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (medicine) Suffering from plethora; ruddy in complexion, congested or swollen with blood.
  • *1941 , (W Somerset Maugham), Up at the Villa , Vintage 2004, p. 81:
  • *:Harold Atkinson, her host, was a fine handsome grey-haired man, plethoric and somewhat corpulent, with an eye for a pretty woman […].
  • Excessive, overabundant, rife; loosely , abundant, varied.
  • *1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 161:
  • *:the judges [...] were arranging their robes and coughing into their fists, the ebb and flow of their plethoric wigs like a flock of sheep on the run.

    • Related terms

    * plethora