Adjective: packed pakt
- Pressed together or compressed
"packed snow"
- Extremely crowded or filled to capacity
"stands jam-packed with fans"; "a packed theatre"; "a suitcase packed out with dirty clothes";
- jammed, jam-packed [informal], packed out
- Arrange in a container
"pack the books into the boxes"
- Fill to capacity
"This singer always packs the concert halls"; "The murder trial packed the court house"
- Press tightly together or cram
"The crowd packed the auditorium";
- throng, mob, pile, jam
- Compress into a wad
"pack paper into the box";
- bundle, wad, compact
- Carry, as on one's back
"Pack your tents to the top of the mountain"
- Load with a pack
"The hikers packed their backpacks with supplies for the long trek";
- load down
- Press down to compact something
"pack the coffee grinds in the container to make espresso";
- tamp down, tamp
- Seal with packing
"pack the faucet"
- Have the property of being packable or of compacting easily
"Such odd-shaped items do not pack well";
- compact
- Have with oneself; have on one's person
"She packs a gun when she goes into the mountains";
- carry, take
- (sport) hike with a backpack
"They packed through the wilderness for a week";
- backpack
- Set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome
"pack a jury"
- Treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood
"The nurse packed gauze in the wound"; "You had better pack your swollen ankle with ice"
See also: bundle off, compact, crowded
Type of: appoint, arrange, be, care for, carry, case, compact, compress, constitute, crowd, crowd together, encase, feature, fill, fill up, have, hike, incase [rare], lade [archaic], laden, load, load up, name, nominate, pack together, seal, seal off, set up, transport, treat
Antonym: take out
Encyclopedia: Packed
Pack, John