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phraseIf a place is very full, you can say that it is bursting at the seams. The hotels of Warsaw, Prague and Budapest were bursting at the seams. Synonyms: full (to bursting), crowded, packed, jammed More Synonyms of bursting at the seams See full dictionary entry for seambursting at the seams in British English See full dictionary entry for seam Examples of 'bursting at the seams' in a sentencebursting at the seams They were bursting at the seams, but without expanding there was nowhere to go.(In the pantry the new deep-freeze was almost bursting at the seams, but at least frozen food did not spoil. The hotel was bursting at the seams. Synonyms full (to bursting) jammed crammed chock-full chock-a-block See seamAdditional synonymsThe street was crowded and noisy. Synonyms packed, full, busy, mobbed, cramped, swarming, overflowing, thronged, teeming, congested, populous, jam-packed, crushed The streets were packed with people. Synonyms filled, full, crowded, jammed, crammed, swarming, overflowing, overloaded, seething, congested, jam-packed, chock-full, bursting at the seams, cram-full, brimful, chock-a-block, packed like sardines, hoatching (Scottish), loaded or full to the gunwales Nearby words ofbursting at the seams - burst into tears
- burst out
- bursting
- bursting at the seams
- bury
- bury the hatchet
- bush
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