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overfilling
[oh-ver-fil] 
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cram
[kram]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fill to overflowing; compress |
| Synonyms: | charge, chock, choke, compact, crowd, crush, devour, drive, force, gobble, gorge, guzzle, heap, ingurgitate, jam, jam-pack, load, overcrowd, overeat, overfill, pack, pack 'em in, pack in, pack it in, pack like sardines, press, ram, sardine, satiate, shove, slop, slosh, squash, squeeze, stive, stuff, tamp, thrust, wedge, wolf* |
| Antonyms: | let out, open, release |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | saturate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | drench, wet through |
| Synonyms: | bathe, douche, douse, imbue, immerse, impregnate, infuse, overfill, penetrate, percolate, permeate, pervade, sate, satiate, soak, sop, souse, steep, suffuse, surfeit, transfuse, wash, waterlog |
| Antonyms: | dehydrate, dry |
| Main Entry: | spill |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | slop, drop |
| Synonyms: | discharge, disgorge, dribble, drip, empty, flow, lose, overfill, overflow, overrun, overturn, pour, run, run out, run over, scatter, shed, spill over, splash, splatter, spray, sprinkle, spurt, squirt, stream, throw off, upset, well over |
| Antonyms: | clean up, pick up |
| Main Entry: | stuff |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | load with |
| Synonyms: | choke up, clog up, compress, congest, cram, crowd, fill, fill to overflowing, fill to the brim, force, glut, gobble, gorge, gormandize, guzzle, jam, jam-pack, overfill, overindulge, overstuff, pack, pad, push, ram, sate, satiate, shove, squeeze, stow, wad, wedge |
| Antonyms: | unload, unstuff |
| Main Entry: | sate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | satisfy |
| Synonyms: | cloy, glut, gorge, gratify, overfill, satiate, stuff, surfeit |
| Antonyms: | deprive, dissatisfy, starve |
| Main Entry: | repletion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | satiation |
| Synonyms: | engorgement, feeding, filling, glut, gratification, indulgence, overfilling, satiety, saturation, slaking, surfeit |
| Main Entry: | satiety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | satiation |
| Synonyms: | engorgement, feeding, filling, glut, gratification, indulgence, overfilling, repletion, saturation, slaking, surfeit |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | Satiety. |
| Category: | 3. Prospective Affections |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
satiety, satisfaction, saturation, repletion, glut, surfeit; cloyment, satiation; weariness., spoiled child; enfant gete, enfant terrible; too much of a good thing, toujours perdrix; crambe repetita.
-verbs
sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate; cloy, quench, slake, pall, glut., gorge, surfeit; bore (weary); tire (fatigue); spoil., have enough of, have quite enough of, have one's fill, have too much of; be satiated
-adjectives
satiated; overgorged; blase, used up, sick of, heartsick.
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