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Meaning of brim over | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To overflow over the brim (of a saucepan etc.)
    intransitive
  2. To experience a very strong emotion; to be overcome with emotion.
    broadly, intransitive
  3. To be bustlingly full of something
    intransitive

Examples

“When he proposed, my heart brimmed over.”
“Flowers, grass, trees, the sun and moon, even the human body, were to him brimming over with song.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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