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fill

UK/fɪl/ US/ˈfɪɫ/ common slang
verb (9) noun (2)

verb

1.

make full, also in a metaphorical sense

  • “fill a container”
  • “fill the child with pride”
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2.

become full

  • “The pool slowly filled with water”
  • “The theater filled up slowly”
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3.

occupy the whole of

  • “The liquid fills the container”
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4.

assume, as of positions or roles

  • “She took the job as director of development”
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5.
6.

appoint someone to (a position or a job)

7.

eat until one is sated

  • “He filled up on turkey”
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8.

fill to satisfaction

  • “I am sated”
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9.

plug with a substance

  • “fill a cavity”

noun

1.

a quantity sufficient to satisfy

  • “he ate his fill of potatoes”
  • “she had heard her fill of gossip”
2.

any material that fills a space or container

  • “there was not enough fill for the trench”
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Origin

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”)

Phrases

  • back and fill
  • clean fill
  • drum fill
  • eat one's fill
  • February fill-dike
  • fill and flee
  • fill and fly
  • fill away
  • fill dirt
  • fill in
  • fill in the blank
  • fill line

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