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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overbrim .
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Examples
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One eye overbrimmed; one tear drew a silver line down his cheek.
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A tear overbrimmed her left eye and slipped down her cheek.
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Old as it looks, all this portion of Warwick has overbrimmed, as it were, from the original settlement, being outside of the ancient wall.
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Scarcely thus: when Juturna's eyes overbrimmed with tears, and thrice and again she smote her hand on her gracious breast.
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The mother was still silent, but Wogan could see that the tears overbrimmed her eyes and rolled down her cheeks.
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At the foot of it they came to a creek, which the tide at this hour had flooded and almost overbrimmed.
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While Hetty lay, neither winking nor moving, the big drops overbrimmed at the corners of each eye and trickled on the pillow.
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A fragrance enveloped her, an exquisite joy overbrimmed her, as a voice -- the beloved, unforgotten voice of matchless music -- spoke.
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As he came up a few steps to meet Major Melville, and touched solemnly, but slightly, his huge and overbrimmed blue bonnet in answer to the Major, who had courteously raised a small triangular gold-laced hat, Waverley was irresistibly impressed with the idea that he beheld a leader of the Roundheads of yore in conference with one of Marlborough's captains.
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Old as it looks, all this portion of Warwick has overbrimmed, as it were, from the original settlement, being outside of the ancient wall.
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