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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"
2.
Become full.  Synonym: fill up.  "The theater filled up slowly"
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



... shall prove me worthy of thee: so thou shalt not deem thyself a widow. I will fill up ...
— Post-Augustan Poetry - From Seneca to Juvenal • H.E. Butler
... himself. His ambition was a high one. He aspired to be the Luther of the new 1517 which he so often dwelt upon, and to construct a theology which, without breaking with the past, should show what Christianity really is, and command the faith and fill the opening thought of the present. It can hardly be said that he succeeded. The Church of the Future still waits its interpreter, to make good its pretensions to throw the ignorant and mistaken Church of the Past ...
— Occasional Papers - Selected from The Guardian, The Times, and The Saturday Review, - 1846-1890 • R.W. Church
... which these little manuals are sold, and the confidence with which their readers recommend them to others, indicates the calibre of the average mind, and shows that they meet a want possibly "not known before," but which they alone, with their little gilt edges, can adequately fill. Ruth was gazing in absent wonder at the volume which supplied all her aunt's spiritual needs when she heard the wire of the front door-bell squeak faintly. It was a stiff-necked and obdurate bell, which for several years Mr. Alwynn had ...
— The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers • Mary Cholmondeley
... the lighted charcoal to pieces with their hands and mouths. I have seen them take the serpents, which they carry about, and devour them alive, the blood streaming down their clothes. The 431 incredible accounts of their feats would fill a volume; the following observations may suffice to give the reader an idea of these extraordinary fanatics. The buska and the [238]el effah are enticed out of their holes by them; they handle them with impunity, ...
— An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa • Abd Salam Shabeeny
... mean to fill any more pages with the British Museum, I will just mention the hall of Egyptian antiquities on the ground-floor of the edifice, though I did not pass through it to-day. They consist of things that would be very ugly and contemptible if they ...
— Passages From the English Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne


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