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Fill   /fɪl/   Listen
Fill

verb
(past & past part. filled; pres. part. filling)
1.
Make full, also in a metaphorical sense.  Synonyms: fill up, make full.  "Fill the child with pride"  Antonym: empty.
2.
Become full.  Synonym: fill up.  "The theater filled up slowly"  Antonym: empty.
3.
Occupy the whole of.  Synonym: occupy.
4.
Assume, as of positions or roles.  Synonyms: occupy, take.  "He occupies the position of manager" , "The young prince will soon occupy the throne"
5.
Fill or meet a want or need.  Synonyms: fulfil, fulfill, meet, satisfy.
6.
Appoint someone to (a position or a job).
7.
Eat until one is sated.  Synonym: fill up.
8.
Fill to satisfaction.  Synonyms: replete, sate, satiate.
9.
Plug with a substance.
noun
1.
A quantity sufficient to satisfy.  "She had heard her fill of gossip"
2.
Any material that fills a space or container.  Synonym: filling.



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"Fill" Quotes from Famous Books



... out!" He was oddly generous now and then, and often returned to a greenhorn money enough to get home on. "Stay on the farm, me lad—'tis better to milk a cow with a mosquito on the back of your neck than to fill ...
— Money Magic - A Novel • Hamlin Garland

... to love did always yield, Let Venus guide it the immortal way, Where dance and song fill all th' Elysian field, And music ...
— The Elegies of Tibullus • Tibullus

... with a sheet of paper perforated with holes for purposes of ventilation; for even humming-birds have a little pair of lungs, and need their own little portion of air to fill them, so that they may make bright scarlet little drops of blood to keep life's fire burning in their tiny bodies. Our bird's lungs manufactured brilliant blood, as we found out by experience; for in his first nap he contrived to nestle himself ...
— Queer Little Folks • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... morning, and is still free. He puts on his best clothes, goes to church, worships a free God, contemplates a free heaven, sees his free children about him, and his wedded wife; and ere the night again returns, the consciousness that he is a slave is quite lost in the thoughts of liberty which fill his breast, and the associations of freedom which cluster around him. He sleeps again. Monday morning he is startled from his dreams by the old "shell-blow" of slavery, and he arises to endure another week of toil, alternated by the same tantalizing ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... can scarcely believe that these mild beardless striplings, tight-waisted and well-curled like girls of sixteen, are the terrible Umbrian brigand condottieri—Gianpaolos, Simonettos, Vitellozzos, and Astorres—whose abominable deeds fill the pages of the chronicles of Matarazzo, of Frolliere, of Monaldeschi. Nowhere among the portraits of Renaissance monsters do we meet with anything like those Roman emperors, whose frightful effigies, tumid, toad-like ...
— Euphorion - Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the - Renaissance - Vol. I • Vernon Lee


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