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  • 1full to overflowing — completely full …

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  • 2abounding inpredicate abounding withpredicate bristling withpredicate full ofpredicate overflowing overflowing withpredicate rich inpredicate rife withpredicate thick withpredicate — filled filled adj. 1. containing as much or as many as is possible or normal; as, filled to overflowing. Opposite of {empty}. [Narrower terms: {abounding in(predicate), abounding with(predicate), bristling with(predicate), full of(predicate),… …

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  • 3full */*/*/ — UK [fʊl] / US adjective Word forms full : adjective full comparative fuller superlative fullest 1) a) containing the largest amount that will fit in a particular place The petrol tank is almost full. a full car park full of: bins full of rubbish… …

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  • 4full — full, complete, plenary, replete are not interchangeable with each other, but the last three are interchangeable with the most comprehensive term, full, in at least one of its senses. Full implies the presence or inclusion of everything that is… …

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  • 5full — I adjective abounding, abundant, affluent, baggy, brimful, brimming over, charged, chockfull, cloyed, complete, comprehensive, crammed, detailed, entire, entirely occupied, exhaustive, filled, filled to utmost capacity, flowing, flush, fraught,… …

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  • 6full — [adj1] brimming, filled abounding, abundant, adequate, awash, big, bounteous, brimful, burdened, bursting, chockablock, chock full, competent, complete, crammed, crowded, entire, extravagant, glutted, gorged, imbued, impregnated, intact, jammed,… …

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  • 7Overflowing — O ver*flow ing, n. An overflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness. [1913 Webster] He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full mind on anybody who would start a subject. Macaulay. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 8overflowing — index cataclysm, copious, demonstrative (expressive of emotion), excess, excessive, full, inordinate, profuse …

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  • 9full — 1. adjective /fʊl/ a) Containing the maximum possible amount of that which can fit in the space available. The jugs were full to the point of overflowing. b) Complete; with nothing omitted. Our book gives full treatment to the subject of angling …

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  • 10full — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. filled, sated, satiated, glutted, gorged; replete; whole, complete, entire; loose, baggy; sonorous; plump, rounded; brimming. See completion, sufficiency. Ant., empty. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1.… …

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