Definitions for packed

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Spelling: [pakt]

IPA: /pækt/

Packed is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in packed (acdekp).

Definitions for packed

noun

1. a group of things wrapped or tied together for easy handling or carrying; a bundle, especially one to be carried on the back of an animal or a person:
2. a definite quantity or standard measure of something wrapped up or otherwise assembled for merchandising (sometimes used in combination):
3. the quantity of something that is packaged, canned, or the like, at one time, in one season, etc.:
4. a group of people or things:
5. a group of certain animals of the same kind, especially predatory ones:
6. Hunting. a number of hounds, especially foxhounds and beagles, regularly used together in a hunt.
7. a complete set of playing cards, usually 52 in number; deck.
8. backpack.
9. a considerable area of pieces of floating ice driven or packed together.
10. Metalworking. a pile of metal sheets for hot-rolling together.
11. Medicine/Medical. a wrapping of the body in wet or dry clothes for therapeutic purposes. the cloths so used. Obsolete. the state of being so wrapped.
12. Mining. Also called pack wall. a rubble wall for supporting a roof. any of various other roof supports of timber, timber and rubble, or rubble and wire mesh.
13. a cosmetic material, usually of a pastelike consistency, applied either to the face or to the hair and scalp:
14. pac2 (def 1).
15. Obsolete. a plot; conspiracy.
16. Obsolete. a low or worthless person.

Idioms

1. pack it in, to give up; abandon one's efforts: to cease being a nuisance.

adjective

1. filled to capacity; full:
2. pressed together; dense; compressed:
3. abundantly supplied with a specified element (used in combination):
4. transporting, or used in transporting, a pack or load:
5. compressed into a pack; packed.
6. used in or adapted for packing:
7. Chiefly Scot. (of animals) tame.

Verb phrases

1. pack in/up, to relinquish or give up; quit:
2. pack off/away, to dispatch: to leave hastily.

verb (used with object)

1. to make into a pack or bundle.
2. to form into a group or compact mass.
3. to fill with anything compactly arranged:
4. to put into or arrange compactly in a trunk, valise, etc., as for traveling or storage:
5. to press or crowd together within; cram:
6. to prepare for marketing by putting into containers or packages:
7. to make airtight, vaportight, or watertight by stuffing:
8. to cover or envelop with something pressed closely around.
9. to load, as with packs:
10. to carry or wear, especially as part of one's usual equipment:
11. Informal. to deliver (a powerful blow, strong message, etc.):
12. to treat with a therapeutic pack.
13. to choose, collect, arrange, or manipulate (cards, persons, facts, etc.) so as to serve one's own purposes:

verb (used without object)

1. to pack goods in compact form, as for transportation or storage (often followed by up).
2. to place clothes and personal items in a suitcase, trunk, etc., preparatory to traveling.
3. to be capable of or suitable for compact storage or packing for transportation:
4. to crowd together, as persons:
5. to become compacted:
6. to collect into a group:

Origin of packed

First recorded in 1770-80; pack¹ + -ed²

Examples for packed

How carefully I packed my pipe, gazing serenely over the roofs of Paris.

They thrive on packed schedules, they say, and take pleasure in working around the clock.

They could feel the flock huddling back, and the warmth of the packed fleeces.

Miami Art Basel is packed with celebrities, including Kim Kardashian and Miley Cyrus.

At which Bezos turned to the packed audience, smiled weakly, and said: “This is Henry being nice to me!”

At night these animals have to be packed closely in an entrenched camp.

The film went on to play to packed houses in Boston through October.

Sometimes he packed clumsily, and she was obliged to do his work over.

This was good news; so after dinner we packed up and went over to the water.

He led the packed cathedral in applause for Ramos and Liu and asked Bratton to bring a message to the men and women of the NYPD.