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overbrim

verb

Etymology

From over- + brim.

  1. inherited from brim
  2. inherited from *bʰrem-✻ — “to make noise”
  3. inherited from *bramjaną✻
  4. inherited from bremman — “to rage; to roar”
  5. inherited from *brōmiz✻ — “famous”
  6. inherited from *brōmi✻
  7. inherited from brēme — “(poetic) glorious; famous, renowned”
  8. inherited from brimmen — “of pigs: to be in heat or rut; to breed; to bear fruit”
  9. prefixed as overbrim — “over + brim”

Definitions

  1. To flow over the brim of

    To 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.

  2. To 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: […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA