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verb
1.
Supply with information on a specific topic.
2.
Represent the effect of shade or shadow on.  Synonym: shade.
3.
Be a substitute.  Synonyms: stand in, sub, substitute.  "The skim milk substitutes for cream--we are on a strict diet"
4.
Write all the required information onto a form.  Synonyms: complete, fill out, make out.  "Make out a form"





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... of one of the Talladega theologians, read a paper upon Home Influence, the prominent points of which were filial obedience, the important place the wife, mother, and daughter fill in the home, and the importance of training the ...
— The American Missionary -- Volume 38, No. 06, June, 1884 • Various
... unsuspected places. But we are digressing. Mr. Brightman and I were speaking together. It occurred to me, from what he said, that he has not quite the right idea as to my aspirations, as to the place I desire to fill in life. I shall try to give him an opportunity ...
— The Box with Broken Seals • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... the Surrey and Middlesex magistrates, the poet's financial prosperity might have met with a serious set-back. Here, as in so many other places, we are too far from the time to see the truth clearly, and those who seek to fill in the shadowy outline of the poet's life must rely upon such conjecture as may have been put forward in good faith by the people who were nearer to him. King James loved the theatre; Queen Elizabeth tolerated it; nor must it be forgotten that in the days when the poet's star was in the ...
— William Shakespeare - His Homes and Haunts • Samuel Levy Bensusan
... of grave discussion. The labor question pressed upon all who looked below the surface of affairs; and very shortly after the census of 1860 a proposition was made in Boston to establish there a formal bureau of labor, whose business should be to fill in all the blanks that in the general work ...
— Women Wage-Earners - Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future • Helen Campbell
... felt this was poor economy, for the work was uncertain and rough, and the extra labor caused by trying to fit the forms to the sloping ground would more than offset the little saving; besides, it took more cement to fill in irregular trenches than it did ones of exact size. They had taken the forms they used for the dairy house foundation, together with some new sections, and set them up on the new footing, using wooden spreaders for holding them the right distance apart and placing heavy wires through ...
— Hidden Treasure • John Thomas Simpson


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