BE FULL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does be full mean? 

• BE FULL (verb)
  The verb BE FULL has 1 sense:

1. be sated, have enough to eat

  Familiarity information: BE FULL used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BE FULL (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be sated, have enough to eat

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Context example:

I'm full--don't give me any more beans, please

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Antonym:

starve (be hungry; go without food)

 Context examples 

Mars will enter Capricorn on February 16 until March 30, and at that time, you will be full of courage, energy, and drive.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You must not be alone; for to be alone is to be full of fears and alarms.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The road is straight to the South, he answered, but it is said to be full of dangers to travelers.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Although the mechanism of its antiangiogenic activity has yet to be full elucidated, this agent may inhibit endothelial cell migration, tumor neovascularization, and the expression of proangiogenic basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF).

(Gimatecan, NCI Thesaurus)

Sixteen miles—nay, eighteen—it must be full eighteen to Manchester-street—was a serious obstacle.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Within, a week St. James’s Street and the Mall will be full of nankeen waistcoats.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The woods seemed to be full of the ape-men; again and again we heard their curious clicking chatter.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“At least it cannot be your health,” said he, as his keen eyes darted over her, “so ardent a bicyclist must be full of energy.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For example: the day after that on which I was obliged to appear against him, he made certain revelations touching a hamper in the cellar, which we believed to be full of wine, but which had nothing in it except bottles and corks.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

On his return to the breakfast-room, he found Mrs. Norris trying to make up her mind as to whether Miss Crawford's being of the party were desirable or not, or whether her brother's barouche would not be full without her.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)