brim
/bɹɪm/ verb C2- To fill (a container) to the brim (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.1), top, or upper edge.
- To fill (something) fully.
- To be full until almost overflowing. · The room brimmed with people.
Plural brim · He/she/it brims · Past brimmed · Past participle brimmed · -ing form brimming
Verb forms
- Base form
- brim
- He/she/it
- brims
- Past
- brimmed
- Past participle
- brimmed
- -ing form
- brimming
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He touched the brim of the old plaid bicycle cap perched on the back of his head.
Lawrence Gulf seemed to rim in the splendor like a huge bowl of pearl and sapphire brimmed with wine and fire.
She wheeled around in her chair, expecting to see Diana, and beheld a white-faced girl whose great eyes were brimmed up with a mixture of desperate courage and shrinking terror.
It was a September evening and all the gaps and clearings in the woods were brimmed up with ruby sunset light.
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