overfull


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overfull

(ˌəʊvəˈfʊl)
adj
excessively full; overflowing
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Adj.1.overfull - exceeding demand; "a glutted market"
full - containing as much or as many as is possible or normal; "a full glass"; "a sky full of stars"; "a full life"; "the auditorium was full to overflowing"
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Translations

overfull

[ˌəʊvəˈfʊl] ADJdemasiado lleno, rebosante (of de)
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

overfull

[ˌəʊvəˈfʊl] adjtroppo pieno/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
References in classic literature ?
The cloyed senses recoiled from it as from an overfull cup.
A flow of words doth ever ease the heart of sorrows; it is like opening the waste weir when the mill dam is overfull. Come, sit thou here beside me, and speak at thine ease."
I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.
That was no cheerful night; the room being overfull of voices and music.
A desire to clean up his beloved Soweto, educate the community and combat the problem of overfull landfills has seen Pendowave founder Gordon Nkuta build a thriving recycling business.
While the trade war is the main cloud over economic growth and demand predictions, market participants also pointed to weakening US data and overfull US crude stockpiles.
'Most of the issues raised against the chairman and his deputy were fundamental and genuine, the cup of chairman in particular is overfull but those behind the plot circumvent the laid down procedures to achieve their objective.
Amongst the overfull menu of digital technologies, there are some that are running really hot, such as AI and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs).
In every other way their grief is identical: the grief of the soul overfull with a single feeling and disempowered by it, the grief of a limited life that cannot take anything else from reality for itself, cannot participate in it and "shares" no other "joys." That is what Pushkin understood and demonstrated, so that others would understand, and that was why he loved the Bronze Horseman.
Down metal staircases, often in the pouring rain, to be herded into overfull buses and then into a draughty 'covered way', open to the elements before joining the zig-zagging crocodile for passport control.
A minor flaw is the overfull, narrowly spaced pages of text in blue with purple graphics/commentary, both somewhat glaring.