packed

• IPA^(key): /pækt/

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• Homophone: pact

packed

1. simple past tense and past participle of pack

packed (comparative more packed, superlative most packed)

1. Put into a package.

   packed lunch

2. Filled with a large number or large quantity of something.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 7, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.

   packed with goodness

3. (colloquial) Filled to capacity with people.
   • 17 June 2018, Barney Ronay, The Guardian, Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win:

     On a steamy summer late afternoon the Luzhniki was once again packed. It is a vast space, with a roof that almost closes in on itself capturing the air like a superheated bubble.

   The bus was packed and I couldn't get on.

• (filled to capacity with people): crowded, rammed; see also Thesaurus:compact

• packed lunch

• depack