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Taking the time to live through the mourning period, accepting the departure of the loved one and living each stage of bereavement to the full is the only way to endure the process of mourning and retain a healthy psychological balance.

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  1. adjective Containing all that is normal or possible: a full pail.
  2. adjective Complete in every particular: a full account.
  3. adjective Baseball Amounting to three balls and two strikes. Used of a count.
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  • What if she could conduct, in Spanish, full searches over English content and read the complete results in her native tongue?
  • If you're lucky, at the end of your internship, you'll be asked to stay on as a full-time employee (or at least encouraged to apply for a full-time position). —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • The x. 1 Low Frequency Effect channel is not defined as a full range channel. —  Softpedia - Windows - All
  • According to this story, YouTube, which is owned by Google, will soon begin showing "professional programming" -- full-length television shows and films from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's archives -- to boost their advertising revenue. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Peter Rausch took over on an interim basis, was named the full-time head coach, then removed. —  WNDU - Home - Headlines
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  1. Middle English ful, from Old English full; see pelə-1 in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English fullen, from Old French fouler, from Vulgar Latin *fullāre, from Latin fullō, fuller; see bhel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also fulle; from Middle English ful, full, fulle, also fol., from Anglo-Saxon ful, full (= Old Saxon ful, full = OFries. ful, fol = Dutch vol = Middle Low German vul, Low German full = Old High German fol, foll, Middle High German vol, German voll = Icelandic fullr = Swedish full = Danish fuld = Gothic (Moesogothic) fulls (ll being an assimilation of orig. ln) = Lithuanian pilnas = Old Bulgarian plŭnŭ = Irish lān (with reg. apocope of p) = Latin plēnus, full, = Zend parena = Sanskrit pūrna, full; with orig. past participle suffix -na (English-en(3)), from the root seen in L. plere (in comp.), fill, also in plus (plur-), more, etc., Greek πιμπλάναι, I fill, future ρλήςειν; cf. πλήρης, full, Sanskrit √ pūr, par, fill. From the L. root are (from plenus) ult. English plenty, plenary, plenitude, plenish, replenish, etc., (from plere) complete, deplete, replete, etc., complement, implement, supplement, etc., comply, supply, accomplish, etc., (from plus) plural, surplus, etc. To the same ult. (Indo-European) root are referred Anglo-Saxon fela, Middle English fele = Greek πολυς, many, much: see feel and poly. Hence (from full) the verb fill, q. v.
  2. from Middle English fulle, n., in part merely another spelling of fylle, fille, from Anglo-Saxon fyllu, fyllo, English fill, n., also from the adjective: see full, adjective
  3. from Middle English ful, full, fulle, from Anglo-Saxon ful, adverb (= Dutch vol = Middle Low German vul, vulle = Middle High German vol = Old Danish fuld, Danish fuld, fuldt = Swedish full), commonly in comp., ful-, full-, with adjectives or verbs (see full-) ; from the adjective Cf. fully.
  4. from Middle English fullen, in part merely another spelling of fyllen, fillen (from Anglo-Saxon fyllan, English fill), in part from Anglo-Saxon fullian, tr., fill; both verbs being from the adjective: see full, adjective
  5. from Middle English fullen, full, a verb derived, at least so far as the form is concerned, from the older noun fuller, fullere, from Anglo-Saxon fullere, a fuller: see fuller. The alleged “Anglo-Saxon fullian, to whiten, to full or make white as a fuller,” does not exist, except as a doubtful inference from fullian, baptize, which is assumed, without proof, to be a figurative use of the supposed literal sense “whiten or cleanse” (see full). The Middle English fullen (= MD). vollen, D. vollen), full, is prob. from Old French fouller, fouler, foler, tread, stamp, or trample on, bruise or crush by stamping, etc., French fouler (= It, follare), tread or trample on, etc., also full (see foil); from Middle Latin fullare, also (after Old French) folare (13th century), full, derived from the much earlier (classical L.) fullo, a fuller, whence also the Anglo-Saxon fullere: see fuller. The native English word for “full” is walk, q. v.
  6. Middle English fullen, follen, fulwen, folwen, folewen, from Anglo-Saxon fullian, fulwian, baptize; origin obscure. see full.
 

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