chock-full
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4.1
- adjective
- /tʃɑk fʊl/
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repleto
- The basket was chock-full of fresh fruits and vegetables from the market.
- chock-full of ideas
So we've got this vast library just chock full of books.
- So we've got this vast library just chock full of books.
- This package, just this one little wrapped package alone is just chock full of baby boy clothes.
- It's the seminar industry is full of fraudsters, absolutely chock full of them.
- It's really chock full of science in the beginning.
- The thing that I say that people hate is that I like my house to be chock full of terrible food.
- Well, dippity, dippity Doo doo's stuff that they later found out was just chock full of dangerous toxic chemicals.
- So the bottom line is women's sports are coming into a chock full calendar of sports.
- Seriously you guys, their website is chock full of like any kind of fairy garden thing ever think of.
Examples
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Well, the day could be chock-full of surprises.
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The house is chock-full of boarders, which keeps us pretty busy.
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It's really chock full of science in the beginning.
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The thing that I say that people hate is that I like my house to be chock full of terrible food.
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An entire new world chock full of gold... just waiting for me.
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This thing is chock full of genius ideas.
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This episode is chock full of all sorts of good information.
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So we've got this vast library just chock full of books.
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Now a community of that size and vibrancy must be chock-full of potential business for lawyers.
Academic text (1995) -
Teachers need to recognize that students enter classrooms chock-full of musical ideas.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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1.0
Containing as much as possible with no empty space
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1.0
Containing a lot of something, like tears or facts
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2.5
Full of many people or things
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1.3
Full of people with no room left
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2.9
Full of a lot of something, often too much
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3.7
Very full and crowded with almost no space
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3.4
Filled to the top edge
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4.2
So full that nothing more can fit
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8.2
So full that there is little or no space
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7.6
Completely full with no space left
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4.9
Completely full of people or things with no space left
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5.2
So full that it almost overflows
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7.9
Completely full of people or things
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3.8
Full to the top with something, often a feeling
Full so there is no room left
Completely filled with things, like a bag or pocket, so nothing else fits
Filled so tightly that there is no space left
Filled so nothing else can fit
Full of something that takes up most of it
Full of things so it is heavy or crowded
Very full after a large meal or in a crowded place
Antonyms
How Full
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Chock-full comes from chock, an old word meaning a 'block' or 'wedge' used to stop things from moving. Think of a box packed so tightly you must jam a block in to hold everything in place, so chock-full means completely full or tightly packed.