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单词 to overflowing
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If a place or container is filled to overflowing, it is so full of people or things that no more can fit in.
The kitchen garden was full to overflowing with fresh vegetables.
He was one of the few teachers who always filled the lecture room to overflowing.
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to overflowing in British English

so full of people or things that no more can fit in
the prisons are full to overflowing
The kitchen garden was full to overflowing with fresh vegetables.
He was one of the few teachers who always filled the lecture room to overflowing.
filling bars and restaurants to overflowing.
the church in Beaconsfield was filled to overflowing with his friends and admirers.
a box filled to overflowing
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Examples of 'to overflowing' in a sentence
to overflowing

Full to overflowing with occult knowledge which he beamed into his creations.
Aldiss, Brian SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
With this latest injustice his cup of bitterness was full to overflowing.
Maclean, Alistair THE LONELY SEA
The top drawer was filled to overflowing with old letters and postcards.
Nabb, Magdalen, Vagheggi, Paolo PROSECUTOR
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