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How to spell full
What it means: Holding or containing as much as possible.
In a sentence: The glass of milk is full.
The part people get wrong
Watch for double l. Often misspelled as ful or fool.
Same family: fuller, fullest, fully, fill, filling. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: Full comes from Old English “full,” meaning ‘filled, replete,’ and is related to Old High German “fol.” Historically, a ‘fuller’ was a person who cleaned and thickened cloth, which is why the verb ‘to full’ in older or technical use meant to process fabric.
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