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[ adjective ] (usually followed by `with' or used as a combining form) generously supplied with
Examples "theirs was a house filled with laughter" "a large hall filled with rows of desks" "fog-filled air" Used in print (James Boylan, "Mutinity"...)Ahead were perilous , ice filled waters . After finding that its coasts led nowhere , however , he turned north again , toward the main , ice filled passageway - and the crew , at_first uneasy , then frightened , rebelled . (Booton Herndon, "From Custer to Korea, The 7th Cavalry"...)He was filled with the spirit of the Fighting_Seventh . (Charles Wharton Stork, "Verner von Heidenstam"...)And yet amid all the gay hedonism in Pilgrimage and Wander-Years is a cycle of short poems , '' Thoughts_in_Loneliness `` , filled with brooding , melancholy , and sombre longing '' . (Edward Jablonski, Harold Arlen Happy with the Blues....)The innocent malfeasant , filled with that supreme sense of honor found in bars , insisted upon replacing the destroyed monocle - and did , over the protests of the former owner - with a square monocle . Related terms |
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