rimmed

[rimd]

adjective

1. having a rim.

   Do you wear rimmed or rimless glasses?

2. having a rim of a specified kind (often used in combination).

   Your red-rimmed eyes show that you have been crying.

Word History and Origins

Origin of rimmed¹

First recorded in 1720–30; rim + -ed ³

Example Sentences

Beejee strode down the short hall, straight to Michael’s bedroom, where Ridge was sitting up, eyes rimmed with red.

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Except for one picked cuticle on a fingernail, which was ever so slightly rimmed with blood.

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Miller, the Mono Lake Committee’s Eastern Sierra policy director, and Geoff McQuilkin, its executive director, led the way to a burbling spring rimmed by innumerable hoof prints.

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Plum had another chance to win it at the buzzer, but her floater rimmed out, sending the game to overtime.

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Prosper, who wore a grey T-shirt, attended his hearing wearing black rimmed glasses.

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