brim
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noun- 1.
Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.
- 2.
(obsolete)The sea; ocean; water; flood.
- 3.
(Australia, US)Synonym of bream (“a freshwater fish from one of a number of genera”); specifically (US), the redbreast sunfish (Lepomis auritus).
Đồng nghĩa: bream
- 4.
(archaic)The period when a sow (“female pig”) is ready to mate; a heat, an oestrus, a rut; also, an act of a boar (“male pig”) and sow mating.
- 5.
(UK, archaic, slang)(UK, slang, obsolete except dialectal) An irascible, violent woman.
Đồng nghĩa: battle axe, bitch, brim, brimstone, cat, crow, dragon, faggot, fishwife, harpy, harridan, hellcat, jade, nag, nudnik, scold, she-devil, shrew, termagant, virago, vixen, witch
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verb- 1.
(transitive)To fill (a container) to the brim (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.1), top, or upper edge.
- 2.
(figuratively, transitive)To fill (something) fully.
- 3.
(also, figuratively, intransitive)(intransitive, also figurative) To be full until almost overflowing.
The room brimmed with people.
Đồng nghĩa: teem, bulge
- 4.
(archaic, transitive)Of a boar (“male pig”): to mate with (a sow (“female pig”)); to rut.
- 5.
(archaic, intransitive)Of a sow: to be in heat; to rut; also, to mate with a boar.
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(Scotland, archaic, poetic)(obsolete except Northern England, Scotland or poetic) Synonym of breme (“of the sea, wind, etc.: fierce; raging; stormy, tempestuous”).
Đồng nghĩa: breme
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ine-pro The noun is derived from Middle English brymme, brimme (bank or edge of a lake or river; shore of a sea; brink; rim); of unclear origin; compare brem.