different between packed vs gorged

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pækt/
• Homophone: pact

Verb

packed

1. simple past tense and past participle of pack

Adjective

packed (comparative more packed, superlative most packed)

1. Put into a package.

2. Filled with a large number or large quantity of something.
3. (colloquial) Filled to capacity with people.

Synonyms

• (filled to capacity with people): crowded, rammed; see also Thesaurus:compact

Translations

• Italian: al completo

Related terms

• packed lunch

Anagrams

• depack

English

Etymology

gorge +? -ed

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???d?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /????d?d/

Adjective

gorged (not comparable)

1. With a stomach stuffed full of food.
   • 1907, O. Henry, Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen

     Gorged nearly to the uttermost when he entered the restaurant, the smell of food had almost caused him to lose his honor as a gentleman, but he rallied like a true knight.

   • “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, […], the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"

2. (heraldry) With the neck collared or encircled by an object.
3. Having a gorge or throat.

Translations

Verb

gorged

1. simple past tense and past participle of gorge

Related terms

• engorged
• gorge

Anagrams

• Dogger, dogger, rogged