to rim

Examples

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• For a festive look, you can rim the cake with colorful icing.

• Now take white eyeliner and rim your waterline.

• Do we rim them all in purple?

  X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

• Her fingers rim the glass's glittering curve.

  Fiction book (1991)

• So the first thing I'm going to do is take my Pat McGrath Labs Extreme Black Liner, and I'm going to rim my entire eye with this.

• To serve, rim the edges of a mug with some frosting, glaze, or something sticky, then dip the rims in the toasted coconut flakes.

  Blog text (10)

• At the bar, the bartender will rim the glass with salt for a margarita.

Synonyms

R

to ring

vsto rim

87 2.5

To form a circle around something to surround it

means instead to add a physical surrounding strip rather than just enclose

F

to face

vsto rim

• Specialized

84 7.0

To cover the edge or surface of something with another material

specifically applies a surrounding strip rather than overall surface covering

C

to circle

vsto rim

70 2.0

To draw a line around something to show it

refers to placing a physical surrounding strip rather than merely encircling

B

to border

vsto rim

12 3.1

To add a decorative edge around something

is about adding a practical surrounding strip rather than decoration

E

to edge

vsto rim

1 4.2

To give something a border or to make its side sharp

focuses on covering with a surrounding strip rather than sharpening

Phrasal Verbs

S

to soar above the rim

• Informal

7.7

To jump very high in basketball to dunk the ball

Compounds

R

rim blight

• UK

9.9

A disease of tea plants that makes leaf edges turn yellow and brown

Surface Forms

Etymology