Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Full to overflowing.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full to the brim or top; completely full: rarely used attributively: as, a glass brimful of wine; “brimful of sorrow,”
- “her brimful eyes,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full to the brim; completely full; ready to overflow.
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- adjective Filled to maximum
capacity
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective filled to capacity
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Examples
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You felt as you listened to his pleadings that sin and salvation were terms brimful of meaning to him.
Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D. Rev. John Gerardus Fagg
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You felt as you listened to his pleadings that sin and salvation were terms brimful of meaning to him.
Forty Years in South China Fagg, John Gerardus, 1860-1917 1894
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Most of the curls have gone, the specs look a touch more understated, and he is lean and long-striding and brimful of the morning.
Observer Food Monthly Awards 2011 Best Food Personality: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall 2011
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But I would have thought Cambridge would be brimful of classics about itself, so this is all very intriguing.
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CBPlanet-Struck, by Julian Turner Anvil, £8.95 The poems in Turner's third collection strike an eerie, haunting note: brimful of spooks, spirits and the seemingly mysterious movements of the elements.
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"I'll be sacked if I try to wriggle out of it," he'd lied and lied, with the cord of the phone around his neck, and across the shambled room Julia engulfed in his dressing gown, aquamarine eyes brimful.
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For parts of its complex architecture are brimful of new life, laced with sweetness that is still a lure for bumblebees.
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The lush gardens are brimful with carved stoneware, unusual plants, fountains, and winding paths leading out into the open land of the Weald.
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She was "brimful of hellcat fury," he wrote last week, recalling an episode that was presumably the 1968 equivalent of Paltrow striving to be "strong and not strident".
The strange case of Liz Taylor as a 'real woman' role model | Catherine Bennett 2011
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Since the commercial triumph of Harry Potter, publishers have received sacks of manuscripts that are brimful of broomsticks, wands and magic spells.
Time travel saga The History Keepers could be the next Harry Potter-style blockbuster 2011
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