RIMMING Synonyms: 114 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in encircling

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rimming

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verb

present participle of rim

as in bordering

to serve as a border for long lashes rimmed his eyes

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Caitlin Clark also made her return after missing most of last season to injury, rimming out a late game-tying 3-pointer in a barn-burner between the Fever and Wings. — Alex Kirshner, New York Times, 10 May 2026 Use your fingers to rub everything together until fragrant, then remove the mint leaves and transfer the mint sugar to a small plate or bowl for rimming glasses. — Maddie Topliff, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Apr. 2026 Set up a salt rimming station and let your guests have at it. — Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 Jan. 2026 Potential game-tying shots rimming in and out. — Tarek Fattal, Daily News, 14 Jan. 2026 Where to Eat and Drink Most dining options are concentrated in small towns rimming the Dark Sky area, like Paisley, Lakeview, Christmas Valley, Burns, and Fields. — Zoe Baillargeon, Travel + Leisure, 22 Dec. 2025

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Adjective

The saints’ days are celebrated, the great days of history are celebrated, and they’re celebrated with this sort of enormous exuberance and deep investment that is somehow very, very touching, very embracing, and very inclusive.

— Terry Ward, AFAR Media, 2 Sep. 2025

Definition of embracing

Verb

Ukraine’s neighbors are on alert Russia’s relentless onslaught has spooked other European countries, especially those bordering Ukraine, which fear spreading attacks from Moscow.

— Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026
Here, on the eastern side of Mount Desert Island and bordering Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine, offers a quintessential seaside escape with small-town charm and beautiful nature.

— Morgan Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of bordering

Adjective

The system, which serves 100,000 residents in Iowa City and its surrounding, mostly rural communities, typifies the challenges most libraries face.

— Adeel Hassan, New York Times, 18 May 2026
Since then, the bustling market serves the surrounding and significant Latino community and others.

— Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 26 Sep. 2025

Definition of surrounding

Verb

For now, though, the puppy who once came bounding into CBS Texas is growing up right before our eyes.

— Nelly Carreño, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
East Portal Park was busy on Monday morning, with children bounding through the playground and the soft clunking of bocce balls echoing from the nearby courts.

— Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of bounding

Adjective

Znotins acknowledges that the airline makes prices for those non-connecting trips expensive to discourage non-connecting customers from booking them.

— Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
Gateway is modified to first repair the old 1910 tunnel immediately and construct a more economical new tunnel (without expensive and unneeded bench walls and cross-connecting passageways) and link it directly into Penn Station.

— New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 16 Feb. 2026

Definition of connecting

Adjective

The Storm Prediction Center has placed all the Kansas City forecast area under a marginal risk (Level 1 of 5) for severe storms.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 21 Aug. 2026
For an executive whose marginal rate is well above 22%, that gap between what's withheld and what's owed becomes a five- or six-figure surprise.

— Meredith Moore, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of marginal

Adjective

In the first incident, Attwell will have had to keep his eyes down on the tackle, which is late and deliberate, and so loses his peripheral vision that might have picked up Munoz breaking into the area.

— Graham Scott, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
For Joan and Luis, these activities were not peripheral to their Jewish lives.

— Laura Yares, The Conversation, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of peripheral

Adjective

Kar, the company’s CEO, was a founding team member at Palo Alto Networks and oversaw Juniper Networks’ entire Ethernet portfolio before the two joined forces at Auradine, a blockchain and AI chip startup where Upscale was incubated.

— Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 22 June 2026
The 28-year-old has won eight Grands Prix across nine seasons for Ferrari, having initially joined the joined the Ferrari Driver Academy in 2016.

— Luke Smith, New York Times, 3 June 2026

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