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overbrim en · VERB

Etymology

From over- + brim.

Meanings

1. (transitive) 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. 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. (intransitive) 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: […] 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:

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