“overbrim”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

overbrim

释义

overˈbrim, v.
[over- 5.]
1. intr. To overflow at the brim; to brim over. (Said of the liquid or the vessel.) Mostly fig.
1607W. Barksted Mirrha (1876) 57 And ere night you will..orebrim with your teares.1817Scott Harold iii. viii, When 'gins that rage to over-brim.1826― Woodst. xxix, If the pitcher shall overbrim with water.1880Webb Goethe's Faust iii. viii. 172 Whene'er he drained its measure, His eyes would overbrim.
2. trans. To flow over the brim of.
1818Keats Endymion i. 137 Each having a white wicker, overbrimm'd With April's tender younglings.1871Browning Pr. Hohenst. 563 The liquor that o'erbrims the cup.
Hence overˈbrimmed ppl. a., overˈbrimming vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1830Tennyson Confess. Sensit. Mind 113 That grace Would drop from his o'erbrimming love, As manna on my wilderness.1839Bailey Festus (1852) 58 Through his misty, o'erbrimmed eye.1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. II. 197 The overbrimming of the town in generations subsequent.

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