BRIMMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brimming mean? 

• BRIMMING (adjective)
  The adjective BRIMMING has 1 sense:

1. filled to capacity

  Familiarity information: BRIMMING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRIMMING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Filled to capacity

Synonyms:

brimful; brimfull; brimming

Context example:

eyes brimming with tears

Similar:

full (containing as much or as many as is possible or normal)

 Context examples 

Martin did not deign to offer excuses, but called for whiskey, filling his own glass brimming before he passed the bottle.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This same part of your chart that is brimming with planetary activity also rules work projects and methods and tools you use to get things done.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

But when I slept, or when the virtue of the medicine wore off, I would leap almost without transition (for the pangs of transformation grew daily less marked) into the possession of a fancy brimming with images of terror, a soul boiling with causeless hatreds, and a body that seemed not strong enough to contain the raging energies of life.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I had seen whisky drunk, such as whisky-and-soda by the men of the clubs, but never as these men drank it, from pannikins and mugs, and from the bottles—great brimming drinks, each one of which was in itself a debauch.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

You will also be highly creative this month, for the same house that is brimming with happy planets is also the house from which new creative ideas will emerge.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Your fifth house of truelove is now brimming with happy planets, including Mars, Jupiter, Pluto, and Saturn, all in the divine-for-Virgo sign of Capricorn.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Your third house, which is brimming with planets—including your ruler, Pluto, along with Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury, and the Sun—also relates to your siblings and cousins, so you may be working on a project with one of your family members.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)