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BE FULL
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Be sated, have enough to eat
Example:
I'm full--don't give me any more beans, please
Classified under:
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Antonym:
starve (be hungry; go without food)
Context examples:
It exactly answers my idea of a fine country, because it unites beauty with utility—and I dare say it is a picturesque one too, because you admire it; I can easily believe it to be full of rocks and promontories, grey moss and brush wood, but these are all lost on me.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The sham chaplain came into our cells to exhort us, carrying a black bag, supposed to be full of tracts, and so often did he come that by the third day we had each stowed away at the foot of our beds a file, a brace of pistols, a pound of powder, and twenty slugs.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There is no doubt your hands will be full and that you will feel the pressure to satisfy the demands of managers at work and those at home at the same time.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
He held up a little silver whistle, as he remarked:—"That old place may be full of rats, and if so, I've got an antidote on call."
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
At this time of the month, you will need more rest, so slow down so you will be full of vim and vigor for the holidays.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
A fish leaped as I went by, and I leaned over to look at it, and I heard a lot of dogs howling—the whole town seemed as if it must be full of dogs all howling at once—as I went up the steps.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
