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packed

[pakt]

adjective

  1. filled to capacity; full.

    They've had a packed theater for every performance.

  2. pressed together; dense; compressed.

    packed snow.

  3. abundantly supplied with a specified element (used in combination).

    an action-packed movie.



packed

/ æ /

adjective

  1. completely filled; full

    a packed theatre

  2. (of a picnic type of meal) prepared and put in a container or containers beforehand; prepacked

    a packed lunch

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • mispacked adjective
  • well-packed adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of packed1

First recorded in 1770–80; pack 1 + -ed 2
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She uses Poundland to pick up snacks for her sons' packed lunches, stationery and birthday cards for school, plus shampoo, shower gel and cleaning products.

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With the Dodgers hosting its archrival San Francisco Giants over the weekend, one might expect the cavernous brew hall with giant projection screens to be packed with revelers.

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He packed the courts with loyalists, found friendly oligarchs to buy up independent media and took over universities — or forced them to close down.

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How do you think your background in stand-up and playing to either packed crowds or nearly empty venues and having to win over an audience, how did that prepare you for a character like Ava?

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It’s packed with ideas from all over the American songbook — Aaron Copland and western folk, run through with Wilson’s own cracked impressionist view of life on the rails.

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