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overfull

[ oh-ver-fool ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

overfull

/ ˌəʊvəˈfʊl /

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

It would seem that Samuel Clemens's cup of remorse must be always overfull.

My brains are soaked like an overfull sponge: they can contain no more this morning.

An overfull bladder has been mistaken for an ovarian cyst and been punctured with a trocar before the mistake was discovered.

Overfull of life as my wild garden patch was, it would not have kept its (human) possessor very long from starvation.

It was growing late—we were very tired and were overfull of undigested story and tangled chronology.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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