to brim
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3.7
- verb
- /brɪm/
:
rebosar
- The waiter filled the glass to the brim with water before serving it.
- brimming with life
Examples
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The products are filled to the brim with incredible ingredients that give the skin this intense hydration.
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With a sudden catch at my heart, I find myself brimming with love and vague premonition.
Academic text (1990) -
We're going to fill all these pots to the absolute brim and then we will go ahead and water them in.
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Ladies and gentlemen, when I first came to America, my heart was brimming with a sense of adventure.
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As her face swelled in his vision, he saw her eyes brimming with love.
Fiction book (1996) -
At the time, Jena was brimming with intelligence agents and undercover police officers.
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Belle gazed toward the chair at the far end, her eyes brimming over with fresh tears.
Fiction book (1995) -
So after the harvest, the warehouses get full and then they're brimming with wheat, OK.
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But I am sure that my words of praise, though dutifully deserved, are most certainly not the reason why all of us here, on this day, are brimming with delight and excitement.
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Like Hutcheson, partner J. David Andrews brims with enthusiasm when he talks about the TQM experience.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
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1.0
To make a place full by putting people or things into it
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1.1
Become so crowded that nothing more can enter
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3.6
Fill something to the top until it almost overflows
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Etymology
The word brim became a verb from the image of a wave reaching the edge: when something fills up it comes 'to the top' or 'to the edge'. So to say your heart brimmed with joy is to say it was full to the top with that feeling.