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Brim over

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To overflow over the brim (of a saucepan etc.) intransitive
  2. 2
    flow or run over (a limit or brim) wordnet
  3. 3
    To experience a very strong emotion; to be overcome with emotion. broadly, intransitive

    "When he proposed, my heart brimmed over."

  4. 4
    To be bustlingly full of something intransitive

    "Flowers, grass, trees, the sun and moon, even the human body, were to him brimming over with song."

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