Brim

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The rim or uppermost edge of a hollow container or natural basin.
  • n. A projecting rim or edge: the brim of a hat.
  • n. A border or an edge. See Synonyms at border.
  • n. Full capacity: "No sooner had the fighting started than the hotel filled to the brim with a most extraordinary collection of people” ( George Orwell).
  • verb-intransitive. To be full to the brim, often to overflowing: The cup is brimming with chowder.
  • verb-intransitive. To be abundantly filled or supplied: a monument brimming with tourists; workers brimming with pride.
  • v. To fill to the brim.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Of pigs: to be in heat, to rut.
  • adj. fierce; sharp; cold
  • n. The sea; ocean; water; flood.
  • n. an edge or border (originally specifically of the sea or a body of water)
  • n. the topmost rim or lip of a container
  • n. a projecting rim, especially of a hat
  • v. to be full to overflowing
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The rim, border, or upper edge of a cup, dish, or any hollow vessel used for holding anything.
  • n. The edge or margin, as of a fountain, or of the water contained in it; the brink; border.
  • n. The rim of a hat.
  • verb-intransitive. To be full to the brim.
  • v. To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.
  • adj. Fierce; sharp; cold. See breme.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The sea; ocean; water; flood.
  • n. A brink, edge, or margin; more especially, the line of junction between a body of water and its bank, or between the bank and the adjoining level: as, to descend to the brim of a lake; the river is full to the brim.
  • n. The upper edge of anything hollow: as, the brim of a cup.
  • n. A projecting edge, border, or rim round anything hollow: as, the brim of a hat.
  • To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.
  • To be full to the brim: as, a brimming glass.
  • To coast along near; skirt.
  • To brim over, to run over the brim; overflow: often used in a figurative sense.
  • To be in heat, as a boar or sow.
  • Famous; celebrated; well known; notorious.
  • Violent; fierce; terrible; sharp.
  • Strong; powerful.
  • Sharp; acute.
  • n. A fish of the family Centrarchidæ, the long-eared sunfish, Lepomis auritus.
  • n. The forehead.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. be completely full
  • n. the top edge of a vessel or other container
  • v. fill as much as possible
  • n. a circular projection that sticks outward from the crown of a hat
  • Verb Form
    brimmed    brimming    brims   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    have    feature    make full    fill up    fill   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    brimming    brimmed    breme   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    border    fierce    sharp    edge   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Grim    Grimm    Him    Im    Jim    Kim    Sim    Tim    Zim    crim   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    rim    collar    visor    cape    ribbon    slipper    sombrero