fully

adverbe

1. 1

   In a full manner; without lack or defect; completely, entirely.

   He is fully capable of meeting his responsibilities.

   As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.

   The lobule margins, furthermore, are arched away from the lobe, with the consequence that (when fully inflated) the abaxial leaf surface forms the interior lining of the lobule.

   This work therefore presents Humanism as a foundation for living in a way that is meaningful and fulfilling, and that enables us to become more fully human.

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   Used as an intensifier for a quantity.

   it was fully four hours before we arrived home.

   At this time in 2008, even as the global economy veered toward collapse, optimism about Washington ran surprisingly high. In polling by the Pew Research Center in November 2008, fully half the respondents thought the two parties would cooperate more in the coming year, versus only 36 percent who thought the climate would grow more adversarial.

3. 3

   Exactly, equally.

   It is fully as shocking as it is meant to be. You step into a pitch black chamber, treading on what feels like a perilous cattle grid, which seems to trigger the crackling circle of white light that starts into life above you.

4. 4

   rareSo as to be full (not hungry); to satiation.

   to eat fully

5. 5

   Used as a general intensifier; actually, really, literally.

   I fully woke up at like 12 p.m. yesterday.

   When Ms. Dunham was given a diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder, a therapist asked her to picture a soothing location. "I fully just imagined Eloise's home at the Plaza," she said.

   We initially see the full look, but when the camera cuts to another angle of Serena checking her phone and holding a bag, it's clear Blake is fully wearing sweatpants under her dress.

   That is very strange—that is fully my mom.

verbe

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   obsolèteTo commit or send someone to trial.

   So I got run in, and was tried at Marylebone and remanded for a week, and then fullied (fully committed for trial), and got this stretch and a half.

   He made the same reply when he was asked if he had anything to say before being committed; and straightway was "fullied." He lurched serenely out of the dock, waving his cap […]

   That would have stirred them up a bit — Charles Pearce in court! Instead of which he was John Ward, and if he was fullied he'd probably get seven years at the most five, perhaps — and then he could be ill and be released on ticket.

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more fully

superlatif

most fully

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fullied

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fullied

participe présent

fullying

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fullies