packed (up or in)

verb

Definition of packed (up or in)next
past tense of pack (up or in)
1
as in ceased
to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end the auto company is downsizing and will be packing up operations at the local plant

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2
as in abandoned
to stop doing (something) permanently after two years of college, he decided to pack in that academic stuff and join the army

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for packed (up or in)
  1. ceased
  2. abandoned
  3. ended
  4. discontinued
  5. stopped
  6. quit
  7. halted
  8. dropped
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  • It’s long ceased to be a neighborhood that puts on airs, an attitude that liberates us all tonight.
    — Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Under Minasian, who replaced Eppler after the 2020 season, even the high-profile moves ceased.
    — Andy McCullough, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of ceased
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  • Matthew Denton, a sheriff's deputy in Ohio's Medina County, has a new dog with a new name, Trooper, in a nod to highway patrol officer John Kronander who found the gray and white puppy abandoned in a crate without food or water at a rest area.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Lucas abandoned Chicago in June 2016, his sights now firmly set on either Los Angeles or San Francisco.
    — Jane Horowitz, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of abandoned
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  • United ended their four-season sleeve sponsorship with DXC Technology in August, with the team instead wearing the standard Premier League sleeve patches, as required by league regulations, for the opening games.
    — Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Disagreements over how to resolve the problem created a political crisis that ended an alliance between leading figures in the government that came to power in 2024.
    — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of ended
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  • South Korea’s Samsung Electronics, the world’s biggest foldable smartphone vendor, launched a tri-fold device in December but reportedly discontinued sales after three months.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 8 Sep. 2026
  • And the younger-skewed Phineas Cole collection that had been a focus of the prior team will also be discontinued, although some of the hallmarks of that brand will be incorporated into the core collection.
    — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of discontinued
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  • The first leg was stopped after Vinicius Junior said he had been racially abused by Benfica’s Gianluca Prestianni, who denied the allegation.
    — Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • British driver Ollie Millroy thanked rival Loek Hartog for saving his life after the Dutch racer stopped and pulled him from a burning Ferrari during a China GT Championship race in Shanghai on Saturday.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of stopped
Verb
  • Staff quit without notice – presumably for better pay or shorter shifts at nursing homes and hospitals.
    — Jayme Fraser, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2026
  • McCalla wanted to bridge these social divides, which eventually led him to quit football to do more on campus.
    — Jesse Dougherty, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of quit
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  • This wider story spans five centuries from the first enslavement of the Caribbean Lucayan and Taíno in 1492 to the Indian Child Welfare Act in 1978, which slowly halted the stealing of tens of thousands of Native children through adoptions.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Unifor, the Canadian auto union, has halted contract talks with Stellantis.
    — Liam Rappleye, Freep.com, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of halted
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  • For too many years an international break has dropped at this point of September, freezing the Premier League just as narratives were being set and excitement was rising.
    — Duncan Alexander, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Its crude imports dropped below 8 million barrels a day in May and June, falling for the first time since 2016, according to the EIA.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of dropped
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“Packed (up or in).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/packed%20%28up%20or%20in%29. Accessed 12 Sep. 2026.

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