Overflowing vs Plethoric - What's the difference?
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* 1829 , Josiah Conder, The Modern Traveler (page 205)
(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.
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)- the great overflowings and recedings of the waters