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BRIM OVER
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Flow or run over (a limit or brim)
Synonyms:
brim over; overflow; overrun; run over; well over
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "brim over" is one way to...):
run out; spill (flow, run or fall out and become lost)
"Brim over" entails doing...:
course; feed; flow; run (move along, of liquids)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "brim over"):
geyser (to overflow like a geyser)
Sentence frame:
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