Fulls

Part of speech: verb, noun

Definitions

1. A term that may refer to one's condition of being completely occupied or satisfied
2. A noun that indicates a state of being filled to capacity or beyond
3. A plural form that suggests multiple instances or examples of something being filled

Etymology: The verb "to full" is the cloth-making sense, and it is the one that matters here. It comes from Middle English "fullen", borrowed from Anglo-Norman "fuler" and Middle French "fouler", which descend from Latin "fullō", meaning a fuller: someone who cleaned and thickened woven cloth. The Romans had the trade long before English did, and the English word for the job is a direct Latin inheritance through French, not a native Germanic one. The surprise lies in the crossover. The Old English verb "fullian" also meant "to full", so English had its own word for the process alongside the French import, and the native verb was the one that survived in the cloth trade's vocabulary. Meanwhile the adjective "full" in its ordinary sense of "filled" shares no origin with the verb at all. Its root reaches back to Proto-Indo-European "pelh₁-", meaning "to fill", which also gave Latin "plēnus" and the English "plenty".

Synonyms: completes, fills, satiates, satisfies

Antonyms: empties, depletes, drains, starves