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Thick With

Definition: Thick With

Thick With

Adjective

1. Abundantly filled; "garden abounding with flowers"; "rich in ideas"; "slums rife with crime"; "the air was thick with snow".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Thick With

Synonyms: abounding in(p) (adj), abounding with(p) (adj), rich in(p) (adj), rife with(p) (adj), thick with(p) (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Thick With

English words defined with "thick with": abounding in, abounding with, atmosphere, atmospheric staterich in, rife withthick. (references)
Specialty definitions using "thick with": Birchin Lanemouse matSamson stripper. (references)
Etymologies containing "thick with": Dense. (references)

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Modern Usage: Thick With

DomainUsage

Screenplays

This country is planted thick with laws from coast to coast (A Man for All Seasons; writing credit: Robert Bolt)

Clever

History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Thick With

TitleAuthorQuote

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

And the air is thick with their company as they call to me, their kinsman, making ready to go, shaking the wings of their exultant and terrible youth

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expression: Thick With

Expression using "thick with": thick with snow. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Thick With

Language Translations for "thick with"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Greek 

  

γεμάτοσ (brimful, crowded, fraught, full, loaded, replete, teeming). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tele (full, replete, to be swamped), tömött (chock-a-block, compact, concrete, congested, crowded, fat, packed, padded, serried, stuffed, thick), vmitől nyüzsgő (abounding with sg). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ickthay ithway.(various references)

   

Turkish

  

kaplı (backed, coated, covered, faced, lined, plated), dolu (abounding, abundant, alive with, capacity, crowded, engaged, filled, fraught, full, hail, instinct, instinct with, laden, loaded, occupied, replete, rife, shot, shot through, steeped in), örtülü (buried, clad, coated, covered, covert, mantled, masked, muffled, shut, submerged, submersed, under cover, veiled, wrapped). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Thick With

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-h-h-i-i-k-t-t-w"

-3 letters: twitch.

-4 letters: hitch, thick, which, witch.

-5 letters: chit, hick, itch, kith, kiwi, tick, tiki, titi, twit, whit, wich, wick, with.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Expressions
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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