overbrim

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ brim.

Verb

overbrim (third-person singular simple present overbrims, present participle overbrimming, simple past and past participle overbrimmed)

  1. (transitive) To flow over the brim of; to overflow.
    • 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:
      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. (intransitive) To be so full as to overflow.

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