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Fill in

verb

Supply with information on a specific topic.

Represent the effect of shade or shadow on. Synonym: shade.

Be a substitute. Synonyms: stand in, sub, substitute. "The skim milk substitutes for cream--we are on a strict diet"

Write all the required information onto a form. Synonyms: complete, fill out, make out. "Make out a form"

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"Fill in" Quotes from Famous Books

... very briefly, the outline of this strange cruise; and when the letters come, you can fill in the blanks. ...

— If, Yes and Perhaps - Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact • Edward Everett Hale

... to fill in before we could get any news of Dawson's vigil in the Malplaquet, and I have never known a day as drearily long. Cary and I were both restless as peas on a hot girdle, and could not settle down to talk or to read or to write. Cary sought vainly to persuade me to read and pass judgment ...

— The Lost Naval Papers • Bennet Copplestone

... up a ball game in a small town and lacked one player. They finally persuaded an old fellow to fill in, although he said he had never played before. He went to the bat and the first ball pitched he knocked over the fence. Every one stood and watched the ball, even the batter. Excitedly they told him to run. "Shucks!" he said, "what's ...

— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher

... of his superior to neglect any of these important essentials, and great care was had, in particular, so to dispose of everything as to render the whole so many radii diverging from a common centre, which centre was the stationary arm-chair that the master of the packet loved to fill in his ...

— Homeward Bound - or, The Chase • James Fenimore Cooper

... and the cleverer. She could write French and nearly speak it, while her sister could only read it. She could play difficult pieces from sight, which it took her sister a morning's pains to practise. She could fill in and finish a drawing, while her sister was still struggling, and struggling in vain, with the first ...

— The Three Clerks • Anthony Trollope

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