overbrimming

UK/əʊvəˈbɹɪmɪŋ/US/oʊ.vɚˈbɹɪmɪŋ/

overbrimming is the present participle and gerund of overbrim.

Meaning of overbrim

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.
- 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...
(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...

overbrimming (not comparable)

(rare) Being plentiful, particularly excessively so.
- The fisherman who takes two little orphans into his already overbrimming family belongs fortunately to a world not altogether of legend.1888, Frank T. Marzials, Life of Victor Hugo, page 173
- His face, which would otherwise have been very handsome, had a sickly, pallid, sodden look that told its own story; and his movements, so far from having anything of the elastic spring given by constant exercise and overbrimming vitality to the English boy, were heavy and languid, as if any...1898, David Ker, O'er Tartar deserts, or, English and Russian in Central Asia, Pantheon, →ISBN, page 82

From over- + brimming.

What does overbrimming mean?: Overbrimming means being plentiful, particularly excessively so.
What is overbrimming the present participle and gerund of?: Overbrimming is the present participle and gerund of overbrim.
What part of speech is overbrimming?: Overbrimming is an adjective.
How do you pronounce overbrimming?: Overbrimming is pronounced /əʊvəˈbɹɪmɪŋ/ (UK).

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