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packed

/pækt/ adjective B2
  1. Put into a package. · packed lunch
  2. Filled with a large number or large quantity of something. · packed with goodness
  3. Filled to capacity with people. (colloquial) · The bus was packed and I couldn't get on.
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Mademoiselle herself packed all the medicines which were sent to M.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 820 · C1
Holmes spent the evening in rummaging among the files of the old daily papers with which one of our lumber-rooms was packed.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 87 · C1
“I should think we did know it,” exclaimed Albert, “since it is owing to that circumstance that we are packed into these small rooms, like two poor students in the back streets of Paris.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 381 · C1
And they soon had me packed into bed;
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 6 · C1

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