Filled vs Rife - What's the difference?
filled | rife |
(label) That is now full.
(fill).
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, title= Widespread, common (especially of unpleasant or harmful things).
* Arbuthnot
* Milton
* 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 170:
* 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic climbs highest to sink Benfica'' (in ''The Guardian , 15 May 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/may/15/benfica-chelsea-europa-league]
Abounding; present in large numbers, plentiful.
(obsolete) Having power; active; nimble.
* J. Webster
Plentifully, abundantly.
As an adjective filled
is (label) that is now full.As a verb filled
is (fill).As a proper noun rife is
(region in northern morocco).filled
English
Adjective
(-)Verb
(head)High and wet, passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.
Statistics
*rife
English
Adjective
(er)- Smallpox was rife after the siege had been lifted.
- Before the plague of London, inflammations of the lungs were rife and mortal.
- The tumult of loud mirth was rife .
- The 'denominational considerations' mentioned below relate, of course, to anti-Semitic feeling, which was already rife in Vienna during the last years of the nineteenth century.
- They will have to reflect on a seventh successive defeat in a European final while Chelsea try to make sense of an eccentric season rife with controversy and bad feeling but once again one finishing on an exhilarating high.
- These woodlands are rife with red deer.
- What! I am rife a little yet.
Adverb
(en adverb)- The snowdrops grow rife on the slopes of Mount Pembroke.