overbrim
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Etymology edit
Verb edit
overbrim (third-person singular simple present overbrims, present participle overbrimming, simple past and past participle overbrimmed)
- (transitive) To flow over the brim of; to overflow.
- (intransitive) To be so full as to overflow.
- 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:
- And all the while, methought, his voice did swim,
As if it drowned in remembrance were
Of thoughts which make the moist eyes overbrim: […]
References edit
- “overbrim”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.