overfull

[ oh-ver-fool ]
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adjective
  1. excessively full: The auditorium was overfull.

Origin of overfull

1
before 1000; Middle English; Old English oferfull.See over-, full1

Other words from overfull

  • o·ver·full·ness, noun

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How to use overfull in a sentence

  • Other literary people have told of this sense of overfullness in the chest, as if somehow there were not room for all the organs.

    Psychotherapy | James J. Walsh

British Dictionary definitions for overfull

overfull

/ (ˌəʊvəˈfʊl) /


adjective
  1. excessively full; overflowing

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