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Grammar : Adj, adv

Spell : oh-ver-foo l

Phonetic Transcription : ˈoʊ vərˈfʊl

Definition of overfull

As in brimming : adj overflowing
As in brimming/brimful : adj overflowing; up to the top
As in overly : adv excessively
As in unduly : adv excessively
As in overmuch : adv unduly

Example sentences :

The college is overfull at present, and yet no girls wish to use the attics.
Extract from : « The Girls of St. Wode's » by L. T. Meade

My brains are soaked like an overfull sponge: they can contain no more this morning.
Extract from : « The Tour » by Louis Couperus

While it might be but a fancy, that was no way to help a man who was overfull of them.
Extract from : « Tommy and Grizel » by J.M. Barrie

I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.
Extract from : « Thus Spake Zarathustra » by Friedrich Nietzsche

The question had caught her at a moment when her mouth was overfull of fried plaice and potatoes.
Extract from : « Mrs. Bindle » by Hebert Jenkins

He could now allow himself a brief relaxation, and for once his grip was nerveless, for his heart was overfull.
Extract from : « A Prairie Courtship » by Harold Bindloss

If the tressing in or tuck of a ship's quarter under water hangs deep, or is overfull, they say she has a fat quarter.
Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth

Kind Ted hurried back, splashing an overfull tumbler of water as he came, on the polished oak floor.
Extract from : « The Romance of His Life » by Mary Cholmondeley

An overfull bladder has been mistaken for an ovarian cyst and been punctured with a trocar before the mistake was discovered.
Extract from : « A System of Operative Surgery, Volume IV (of 4) » by Various

Overfull of life as my wild garden patch was, it would not have kept its (human) possessor very long from starvation.
Extract from : « A Rambler's lease » by Bradford Torrey

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