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Packed

adjective

1.

Filled to capacity. Synonyms: jam-packed, jammed. "Stands jam-packed with fans" , "A packed theater"

2.

Pressed together or compressed.

Pack

verb

(past & past part. packed; pres. part. packing)

1.

Arrange in a container. Antonym: unpack.

2.

Fill to capacity. "The murder trial packed the court house"

3.

Compress into a wad. Synonyms: bundle, compact, wad.

4.

Carry, as on one's back.

5.

Set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome.

6.

Have with oneself; have on one's person. Synonyms: carry, take. "I always carry money" , "She packs a gun when she goes into the mountains"

7.

Press tightly together or cram. Synonyms: jam, mob, pile, throng.

8.

Hike with a backpack. Synonym: backpack.

9.

Press down tightly. Synonyms: tamp, tamp down.

10.

Seal with packing.

11.

Have the property of being packable or of compacting easily. Synonym: compact. "Such odd-shaped items do not pack well"

12.

Load with a pack. Synonym: load down.

13.

Treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood. "You had better pack your swollen ankle with ice"

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"Packed" Quotes from Famous Books

... bearings. At last, after many penetrations, I managed to bring in a view of the head of the shaft at the bottom of which I knew the tunnels were located, and saw that we were none too soon, for all the corridors leading toward this shaft were packed with Hans waiting ...

— The Airlords of Han • Philip Francis Nowlan

... My trunk had been packed and strapped since sunrise, and before the ship reached the pier, I had said "good-by" to everyone on board and was waiting impatiently at the gang-way. I was the only passenger to leave, and no cargo was unloaded nor taken on. She was ...

— Captain Macklin • Richard Harding Davis

... fall is slow in parachuting to the ground. Frau Poitevin, making a descent from a height of 6,000 feet, took 45 minutes to reach the ground, and, when she alighted, her husband, who had taken her up, had nearly got his balloon packed up. Robertson, another parachutist is said to have descended from a height of 10,000 feet in 35 minutes, or at a rate of nearly 5 feet per second. During the War Brigadier-General Maitland made a parachute descent from a height of ...

— A History of Aeronautics • E. Charles Vivian

... Moorish countries, bartering corn and blue cotton cloths for salt, which they again barter in Dentila and other districts for iron, shea-butter, and small quantities of gold-dust. They likewise sell a variety of sweet-smelling gums, packed up in small bags, containing each about a pound. These gums, being thrown on hot embers, produce a very pleasant odour, and are used by the Mandingoes for perfuming their huts ...

— Travels in the Interior of Africa - Volume 1 • Mungo Park

... Athens.—The Pnyx is an open space of ground due west from the Acropolis. It originally sloped gently away towards the northeast, but a massive retaining wall had been built around it, in an irregular semicircle, and the space within filled with solidly packed earth sloping inwards, making a kind of open air auditorium. It is a huge place, 394 feet long, and 213 feet at the widest. The earthen slope is entirely devoid of seats; everybody casts himself down sprawling or on his haunches, perhaps with an old himation under ...

— A Day In Old Athens • William Stearns Davis

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