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overbrims

overbrims is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overbrim.

Meaning of overbrim

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.
    • 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...
  2. (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...

Questions about overbrims

What is overbrims the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Overbrims is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overbrim.

Words near overbrims in the dictionary

  1. overbrim
  2. overbrimful
  3. overbrimmed
  4. overbrimming
  5. overbrimmingly
  6. overbrims
  7. overbroad
  8. overbroaden
  9. overbroadened
  10. overbroadening
  11. overbroadens

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