fill

Meaning

Verb

1. (ergative, transitive) To make full
2. (ergative, transitive) To make full
3. (ergative, transitive) To make full
4. (intransitive) To become full.
5. (intransitive) To become full.
6. (transitive) To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
7. (transitive) To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
8. (transitive) To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
9. (transitive) To block, obstruct
10. (transitive) To supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
11. (transitive) To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
12. (slang, transitive, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
13. (slang, transitive, vulgar) To ejaculate inside someone or something.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
2. (countable, uncountable) An amount that fills a container.
3. (countable, uncountable) The filling of a container or area.
4. (countable, uncountable) Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
5. (countable, uncountable) Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and exposed by excavation; fill soil.
6. (countable, uncountable) An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.
7. (countable, uncountable) A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody.
8. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of fill light.
9. (countable, uncountable) The weft yarn.

Noun

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

Synonyms

fill up

stuff

load

satisfy

pour

pack

complete

fill in

charge

fulfil

fulfill

occupy

make full

filling

satiate

replenish

cram

cover

flood

meet

pervade

full

stop

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block

fill out

congest

take

crowd

plug

imbue

overwhelm

choke

keep

line

top off

hold

pad

put into

stuff into

stop up

stopper

sate

replete

put in

extend

clog

go

serve

tamp

overflow

Translations

remplir

llenar

riempire

füllen

encher

vullen

rellenar

γεμίζω

combler

omplir

colmar

ocupar

auffüllen

vervullen

stoppen

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɪl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: fillen

Inherited from Old English: fyllan

Cognate with Scots: fill

Cognate with Western Frisian: folje

Cognate with Low German: füllen

Cognate with Dutch: vullen

Cognate with German: füllen

Cognate with Danish: fylde

Cognate with Swedish: fylla

Cognate with Norwegian: fylle

Cognate with Icelandic: fylla

Cognate with Latin: plenus

Inherited from Middle English: fille

Inherited from Old English: fyllu

Cognate with German: Fülle

In summary

From Middle English fillen, fullen, from Old English fyllan (“to fill, fill up, replenish, satisfy; complete, fulfill”), from Proto-West Germanic *fullijan, from Proto-Germanic *fullijaną (“to make full, fill”), from *fullaz (“full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”).
Cognate with Scots fill (“to fill”), West Frisian folje (“to fill”), Low German füllen (“to fill”), Dutch vullen (“to fill”), German füllen (“to fill”), Danish fylde (“to fill”), Swedish fylla (“to fill”), Norwegian fylle (“to fill”), Icelandic fylla (“to fill”) and Latin plenus (“full”)

Sentences

When they go out Lucius secretly eats his fill of their food .