BRIM OVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brim over mean? 

• BRIM OVER (verb)
  The verb BRIM OVER has 1 sense:

1. flow or run over (a limit or brim)

  Familiarity information: BRIM OVER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRIM OVER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flow or run over (a limit or brim)

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

brim over; overflow; overrun; run over; well over

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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