Synonyms of rimming

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adjective

as in encircling

Synonyms & Similar Words

• encircling
• embracing
• surrounding
• bounding
• connecting
• marginal
• communicating
• peripheral
• enclosing
• inclosing
• circumjacent
• joined
• fencing
• connected
• attached
• linked
• interconnecting
• nearby
• tangential
• nearest
• closest
• united
• next-door
• adjacent
• tangent
• ambient
• joining
• near
• touching
• encompassing
• flanking
• immediate
• adjoining
• approximate
• contiguous
• fringing
• nigh
• abutting
• close
• neighboring
• bordering
• flush
• skirting
• juxtaposed
• conterminous
• verging

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• discrete
• apart
• noncontiguous
• separate
• single
• isolated
• nonadjacent
• remote
• detached
• distant
• free-standing
• isolate
• farthest
• away
• unattached
• unconnected
• far
• unlinked
• removed
• discontinuous
• disconnected
• noncontinuous
• split
• divided
• broken up
• parted
• resolved
• divorced
• far-off
• severed
• faraway
• ramified
• uncoupled
• dissociated
• disunited
• sundered
• unyoked
• dissevered
• disjoined

rimming

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verb

present participle of rim

as in bordering

to serve as a border for

long lashes rimmed his eyes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bordering
• bounding
• surrounding
• edging
• fringing
• skirting
• framing
• encircling
• margining
• trimming
• defining
• circling
• tracing
• outlining
• demarcating
• inclosing
• enclosing
• hemming
• circumscribing
• sketching
• looping
• curbing
• walling
• rounding
• delineating
• restricting
• ringing
• limiting
• silhouetting
• environing
• restraining
• confining
• girdling
• controlling
• checking
• girthing
• compassing