fill to excess

  • 1excess capacity — ➔ capacity * * * excess capacity UK US noun [U] ► ECONOMICS, COMMERCE the ability to hold or deal with a larger number of people or things than is needed at the present time: »The airline has shifted some of its excess capacity from Asian to… …

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  • 2Fill My Little World — Single infobox Name = Fill My Little World Artist = The Feeling from Album = Twelve Stops and Home Released = 7 November 2005 (original release) 22 May 2006 (re release) Format = Vinyl record (7 ), CD, digital download Recorded = Genre = Soft… …

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  • 3load — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. burden; cargo, lading, shipment; charge. See gravity, transportation. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A physical burden] Syn. weight, encumbrance, carload, wagonload, hindrance, shipload, parcel, pressure,… …

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  • 4glut — gluttingly, adv. /glut/, v., glutted, glutting, n. v.t. 1. to feed or fill to satiety; sate: to glut the appetite. 2. to feed or fill to excess; cloy. 3. to flood (the market) with a particular item or service so that the supply greatly exceeds… …

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  • 5surfeit — 1. noun /ˈsɜː.fɪt,ˈsɝː.fɪt/ a) An excessive amount of something. A surfeit of wheat is driving down the price. b) Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating. King Henry I is said to have died of a surf …

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  • 6stuff — [stuf] n. [ME stoffe < OFr estoffe < estoffer, prob. < Gr styphein, to pull together, tighten < styppe, tow, coarse cloth of flax or hemp: see STOP] 1. the material or substance out of which anything is or can be made; raw material 2 …

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  • 7glut — [[t]glʌt[/t]] v. glut•ted, glut•ting, n. 1) to feed or fill to satiety; sate: to glut the appetite[/ex] 2) to feed or fill to excess; stuff: to glut oneself with candy[/ex] 3) to flood (the market) with a particular item or service so that the… …

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  • 8glut — [c]/glʌt / (say glut) verb (glutted, glutting) –verb (t) 1. to feed or fill to satiety; sate: to glut the appetite. 2. to feed or fill to excess; cloy. 3. to choke up: glut a channel. –verb (i) 4. to eat to satiety. –noun 5. a full supply. 6. a… …

  • 9pack — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. stow, bale, package, packet; load, burden, bundle; knapsack; crowd, mob, multitude; herd, flock, bevy, covey. See assemblage. v. stow, bale, package; cram, tamp; cake, solidify; add to; stuff; load,… …

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  • 10stuff — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. cram, pack, jam, fill; pad, wad; plug, block; gormandize, gorge, overeat. See gluttony, expansion. n. fabric, cloth, material; nonsense; substance; rubbish. the stuff II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Material]… …

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