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brim over en · VERB
Meanings
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(intransitive) To overflow over the brim (of a saucepan etc.)
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(broadly, intransitive) To experience a very strong emotion; to be overcome with emotion.
When he proposed, my heart brimmed over.
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(intransitive) To be bustlingly full of something
Flowers, grass, trees, the sun and moon, even the human body, were to him brimming over with song.
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