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Collocations for full - adj.

1. holding/containing as much as it will hold

VERBS

be, look, seem
become, get
The garage is getting full of junk again.

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ADVERB

absolutely, completely
The kitchen was absolutely full of flies!
almost, nearly, virtually (esp. BrE)
The reservoirs are all virtually full.
half, two-thirds, etc.
too

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PREPOSITION

of
The bottle was half full of water.

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2. containing a lot of sth

VERBS

be, look, seem

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ADVERB

extremely, fairly, very, etc.
Her wine glass was still fairly full.

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3. having had enough to eat or drink

VERBS

be, feel

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ADVERB

absolutely, completely
rather

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PHRASES

full up (BrE)
I'm full up. I can't eat another thing.

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Full is used with these nouns:
acceptance, access, account, address, admission, advantage, agenda, agreement, alert, allegiance, amount, answer, apology, appraisal, appreciation, approval, armour, array, assurance, attention, authority, autonomy, awareness, backing, battery, beam, beard, belly, bibliography, bladder, blessing, board, bosom, bottle, bowl, breadth, breakdown, breakfast, breast, briefing, brother, brunt, bucket, cabinet, calendar, carriage, check, circle, citizen, citizenship, colour, command, commitment, compensation, complement, complexity, conference, confession, confidence, congress, consciousness, consent, consequence, consideration, consultation, container, context, control, cooperation, cost, costume, cover, coverage, credit, cup, curriculum vitae, custody, day, daylight, decade, deployment, description, detail, development, disarmament, discretion, discussion, distance, dose, driving licence, effect, employment, endorsement, enjoyment, enormity, enquiry, equality, examination, exemption, explanation, exploitation, exploration, exposure, expression, extent, fare, fee, figure, fitness, flavour, force, freedom, fridge, fruition, funding, fury, gamut, glare, glass, glory, grant, guarantee, health, hearing, height, honour, horror, hour, house, impact, implementation, implication, independence, inquest, inspection, instruction, integration, inventory, investigation, involvement, itinerary, knowledge, larder, length, liability, licence, life, light, lip, list, load, make-up, marathon, mark, maturity, medical, meeting, member, membership, menu, minute, mobility, month, moon, mourning, mouth, name, orchestra, ownership, package, page, pail, pardon, participant, participation, partner, passport, pay, payment, pension, period, permission, picture, plate, potential, power, price, production, professor, protection, provision, quota, range, ration, realization, rebate, recognition, reconciliation, recovery, reference, refrigerator, refund, regard, register, registration, repayment, repertoire, replacement, report, responsibility, restoration, return, review, revolution, right, rigour, role, scale, schedule, scholarship, scope, score, screen, season, sense, sentence, service, session, set, share, significance, sister, size, skirt, sleeve, sovereignty, span, specification, spectrum, speed, splendour, statement, stature, status, stomach, story, subscription, suitcase, sum, summary, sun, sunlight, support, survey, tank, term, text, timetable, title, train, transcript, trial, truth, tuition, tummy, turn, understanding, uniform, union, use, value, version, volume, week, weight, width, withdrawal, wrath, year

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