packed
English
Pronunciation
Verb
packed
- simple past and past participle of pack
Adjective
packed (comparative more packed, superlative most packed)
- Put into a package.
- packed lunch
- Filled with a large number or large quantity of something.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 7, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
- packed with goodness
- (colloquial) Filled to capacity with people.
- The bus was packed and I couldn't get on.
- 2018 June 17, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 August 2019:
- On a steamy summer late afternoon the Luzhniki was once again packed. It is a vast space, with a roof that almost closes in on itself capturing the air like a superheated bubble.
- 2019 October, Chris Stokes, “Between the Lines”, in Modern Railways, page 97:
- We picked up returning Millwall supporters at New Street, together with a couple of British Transport Police officers, and the train, an 11-car set, was now packed.
Synonyms
- (filled to capacity with people): crowded, rammed; see also Thesaurus:compact
Translations
put into a package
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filled with a large number or large quantity
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filled to capacity