overbrim

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verb

To flow over the brim of; to overflow.

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Meanings

verboverbrim (third-person singular simple present overbrims, present participle overbrimming, simple past and past participle overbrimmed)

present singular third person overbrims · participle present overbrimming · participle past overbrimmed · past overbrimmed

  1. transitiveTo flow over the brim of; to overflow.

    And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.

    1819 September 19, John Keats, “To Autumn”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 137
  2. intransitiveTo be so full as to overflow.

    And all the while, methought, his voice did swim, As if it drowned in remembrance were Of thoughts which make the moist eyes overbrim: […]

    1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 235

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
overflow

Origin

From over- + brim.

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