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I could feel my eyes brimming over with tears.
The fountain had brimmed over and all the paving stones were wet.
My heart brimmed over with love and admiration for her.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Movement of liquids
backsplash
be dripping with somethingidiom
brim
brim with something
counter-stream
drip
funnel
leakage
pour-over
reinject
reinjection
respray
ripple
run a bathphrase
spate
stem
swash
swill
swirl
swirling
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Plenty and abundant
brim over something
phrasal verb with brimverb[ I ]uk /brɪm/ us /brɪm/
-mm-to flow over the edges of a container:
After all the rain, the lake was brimming over its banks.
Tears welled up until I felt them brimming over my eyelids.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Movement of liquids
backsplash
be dripping with somethingidiom
brim
brim with something
counter-stream
drip
funnel
leakage
pour-over
reinject
reinjection
respray
ripple
run a bathphrase
spate
stem
swash
swill
swirl
swirling