单词 | overbrimming |
释义 | overbrimmingn. The action of overbrim v. Now chiefly in filled to overbrimming: more than full; overflowing. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [noun] > fullness > to or over the brim brimfulnessa1616 brimming1851 overbrimming1858 1858 N. Hawthorne French & Ital. Jrnls. II. 197 The overbrimming of the town in generations subsequent. 1988 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 3 July 1 c The closet..is filled to overbrimming with every possible kind of apparel. 1997 Independent (Nexis) 25 Nov. 4 I do not see how..McLeish could have..presented more acutely the act of disobedience as the unconscious overbrimming of this imagined sense of togetherness. 2002 Nation's Restaurant News (Nexis) 1 Apr. 19 Every restaurant she'd been to during her three-day trip was filled to almost overbrimming. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see alsoalso refers to : over-brimmingadj. < n.1858 see also |
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