Definitions
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- adj. All out.
- adj. Out and out
- adj. Overwhelming
- adv. Totally; with full commitment.
Examples
“And then, of course, he fell in love with her, for she leaned on his piano and improvised flatteries across the strings to him and turned full on him the luminous midnight of her ox-eyed beauty.”
“Buzz said, “Maybe I just trust you,” walked over and kissed Audrey Anders full on the lips, one hand holding her head, cradling it.”
“Resolved, That the State of Mississippi hereby subscribes for five hundred copies of the proceedings, debates, etc., of the first session of this Convention, as published by J.L. Power; provided, that be add thereto the proceedings and Ordinances of this session, and the debates in full on the ratification of the permanent Constitution of the Confederate States of America.”
Journal of the State Convention, and ordinances and resolutions adopted in March, 1861,
“Maigret felt a bit full on account of the brandade, and perhaps also the Midi wine.”
“We send out usually mean persons as public agents, mere partisans, for whom I can only hope that no man with eyes will meet them; and now those thirsty eyes, those portrait-eating, portrait-painting eyes of thine, those fatal perceptions, have fallen full on the great forehead which I followed about all my young days, from court-house to senate-chamber, from caucus to street.”
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
“The same histories likewise record that two of his own blood and posterity, and particularly his immediate successor William Rufus, lost their lives in this forest — one, viz., the said William Rufus, being shot with an arrow directed at a deer which the king and his company were hunting, and the arrow, glancing on a tree, changed his course, and struck the king full on the breast and killed him.”
“Mr. Rivers now closed his book, approached the table, and, as he took a seat, fixed his blue pictorial-looking eyes full on me.”
“Alva Jane was kissing this boy, kissing him full on the lips!”
“It may be noted that it is still retained in Easter Week, the Graduals of which are all connected (the refrain being the same and the verses being all from one psalm), and doubtless originally formed one chant with several verses, which was performed in full on Easter Day.”
“Dudley Smith said, “Yes,” kissed him full on the lips and walked away whistling a love song.”
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strev To give it your all (give 'er)
To commit fully and completely in your task Apr 13, 2009