brim over vs overwhelm

brim over

verb
  • To experience a very strong emotion; to be overcome with emotion. 

  • To be bustlingly full of something 

  • to overflow over the brim (of a saucepan etc.) 

overwhelm

verb
  • To overpower emotionally. 

  • To cause to surround, to cover. 

  • To engulf, surge over and submerge. 

  • To overpower, crush. 

noun
  • The state or condition of being overwhelmed. 

How often have the words brim over and overwhelm occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )