Meanings
verbupbrim (third-person singular simple present upbrims, present participle upbrimming, simple past and past participle upbrimmed)
present singular third person upbrims · participle present upbrimming · participle past upbrimmed · past upbrimmed
- To brim upwards
[…], whom I knew when her dreams were upbrimming with light, And with laughter her eyes.
1898, Thomas Hardy, “Thoughts of Ph——a”, in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 1521 more example
Lady many-spoused, more charity Upbrims in thee than in some loftier ones Who would not name thee with their white-washed tongues.
1904, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars, […], part first, London: Macmillan and Co.: New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, Act VI, scene vii, page 218
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