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fill
verb filled, filling
    1. To make it full.
      Example: fill the bath with water
      Thesaurus: pack, stuff, lade, supply, satisfy, sate, ram, cram, crowd, saturate; Antonym: empty, clear.
      Form: fill something up (also)
    intr
    2. To become full.
      Example: The petrol tank filled up quickly
      Form: fill up (also)
    3. To take up all the space in something.
    4. To satisfy (a need); to perform (a role) satisfactorily.
    5. To occupy (time).
      Form: fill up (sometimes)
    6. To put material into (a hole, cavity, etc) to level the surface.
      Form: fill something in (also)
      Form: fill something up
    7. To appoint someone to (a position or post of employment).
    8a. To take up (a position or post of employment);
    8b. To work in (a job), sometimes temporarily.
      Example: She filled the post for six months
    intr
    9. Said of a sail: to billow out in the wind.
noun
    1. Anything used to fill something.
    2. Material such as stones, gravel, etc used to fill a space to a required level.
      Example: rock-fill
Idiom: be filled with feelings
    To be profoundly affected by them.
Idiom: eat one's fill
    To consume enough to satisfy.
Idiom: fill the bill
    To be perfectly suited for something.
Idiom: to have had one's fill of something or someone
    To have received or experienced more of it or them than one can tolerate.
Etymology: Anglo-Saxon fyllan.

Phrasal Verb: fill someone in
    To inform them fully; to brief them.
Phrasal Verb: fill something in
    To write information as required on to (a form, etc).Said of a drawing: to complete it.
Phrasal Verb: fill in for someone
    To take over their work temporarily. See also fill-in.
Phrasal Verb: fill out
    To put on weight and become fatter or plumper.
Phrasal Verb: fill something out
    To enlarge it satisfactorily; to amplify it.To fill in (a form, etc).
Phrasal Verb: fill something up
    To fill in (a form, etc).To make it full.


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