fully

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   In a full manner

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

   • He is fully capable of meeting his responsibilities.
   • 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.
2. 2

   Used as an intensifier for a quantity.

   • it was fully four hours before we arrived home.
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.
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   1. 4

      So as to be full (not hungry)

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

      • to eat fully
   2. 5

      Used as a general intensifier

      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.
   3. 6

      To 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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