overflowing
adj.adj. so full of something that it is spilling over the edges. You use this when a container or a space cannot hold any more.
adj. containing more than can be held; spilling over the brim or boundaries. Often used as a participial adjective to describe physical containers or figurative states like emotions.
The kitchen bin is overflowing with trash.
After the heavy rain, the river was overflowing its banks and flooding the nearby fields.
The professor's desk was a chaotic landscape of overflowing folders and loose manuscripts, suggesting a mind far more concerned with research than with administrative order.
From overflow + -ing
Often used predicatively after 'be' or 'seem', or attributively before a noun. Frequently takes the preposition 'with' when describing the contents.
The cup was overflowed with waterThe cup was overflowing with waterLearners often use the past participle 'overflowed' when they mean the continuous state 'overflowing' to describe a full container.