brim

1. 1.

   be completely full

   “His eyes brimmed with tears”

   Broaderhave
2. 2.

   fill as much as possible

   “brim a cup to good fellowship”

   Broaderfill

Other forms of brim

plural

brims·

past tense or participle

brimmed

present participle

brimming

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about brim

What does brim mean?

brim means "the top edge of a vessel or other container". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brim?

brim has 1 syllable: brim. In IPA it is /ˈbɹɪm/.

What is another word for brim?

Close synonyms include rim, lip. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brim a common word?

brim is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.