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🥛 To make full ✅ To satisfy 👔 To appoint 🍽️ Enough amount 🪨 A filler material
to fill

to fill

∞ 1.0
To make a place full by putting people or things into it
  • verb
  • /fɪl/
translation icon : llenar
  • - The Garden's filling up.
  • fill out a questionnaire
  • fill in the blanks
  • fill the gaps

I'm just going to attempt to fill in my pores with this.

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Examples

  • I'm just going to start and fill some pages with ink.

    Rich Roll

  • Kitchen shelves are lined with recycled glass bottles filled with teas, herbs, and spices.

    Academic text (2008)

  • I am now going to fill this glass with milk.

    Straw Dogs (1971)

  • I need to check if we're filling these beds.

    Jack Be Nimble (2022)

  • Call to me all my sad captains, fill our bowls once more.

    Antony and Cleopatra (1972)

  • Don't forget to fill the bottle when you're done.

  • Natural variations in surface topography create depressions that fill with water from snowmelt during summer.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Please fill the bucket with fresh water before the rain starts.

  • She decided to fill the room with laughter by telling funny stories.

  • They will fill the garden with beautiful flowers in the spring.

Synonyms

to stuff
vsto fill
243 2.0

To fill something tightly with things

is the general action of making or becoming full without tight packing focus
to saturate
vsto fill
55 5.2

Make something so full of liquid or color that it can take no more

is the broader action of making full without implying absorption or soaking
to fill up
vsto fill
19 1.8

Make something have no empty space or cause a strong feeling in someone

is the general verb for causing or becoming full in various ways
to cram
vsto fill
16 3.2

Push things or people into a small space until nothing fits

is the general act of making full without the implied force or compulsion
to fill to the brim
vsto fill
5 2.7

To make something so full that nothing else can fit

is the neutral general action without stressing absolute capacity
to infill
vsto fill
  • Specialized
1 5.6

To fill a space with material or build on empty land between buildings in a city

is the broad verb for making something full not limited to gaps or land

Antonyms

to empty
179 1.0

To remove everything from a container or place

drain
44 1.4

The act of letting liquid flow out

Idioms

to fill the air
18 3.7

A strong sound, smell, or feeling that people notice around them

to fill to the brim
5 2.7

To make something so full that nothing else can fit

to fill someone's shoes
4 5.3

To take over someone's job when it is hard to do it as well

to fill the bill
2 4.0

To be right for a particular purpose or need

to fill one's face
  • UK
8.5

To eat a lot of food quickly

to fill one's hand
8.6

Put as much as your hand can hold

to fill one's boots
  • UK
9.1

To enjoy something fully and take as much as you want

to fill one's pants
  • NSFW
9.9

To be so frightened that you almost wet yourself

to get one's fill
  • Informal
3.7

Have as much of something as you want until you feel satisfied

Phrasal Verbs

to fill out
  • US
261 1.6

To write all the needed information on a form

to fill in
  • Informal
145 2.8

Tell someone what happened when they were not there

to fill in
100 3.3

Do someone else's job for a short time

to fill up
90 1.3

Close a hole or gap by putting material into it

to fill in
  • UK
59 1.9

Write the information asked for on a form

to fill up
46 1.1

Become so crowded that nothing more can enter

to fill up
19 1.8

Make something have no empty space or cause a strong feeling in someone

to fill in the blank
14 2.6

To write the missing word in a sentence or exercise

to fill out
14 2.8

To become or make something fuller by adding more

to fill up
10 1.9

Eat until you cannot eat any more

to fill in
  • Specialized
4 4.2

Add shade to a drawing to show light and shadow

to get my fill
3 6.6

Have enough of something so you do not want more

to back and fill
  • Specialized
1 8.6

To make small changes or refill trenches

to fill in the form
  • UK
1 1.0

To complete a paper or online form by writing your personal details

to fill the pothole
2.6

To put material into a hole in the road to make it level

Compounds

fill-in
6 3.5

A person who temporarily does another person's job

side-fill monitor
  • Specialized
7.2

A speaker at the side of a stage that helps performers hear the sound

How Full

to overfill
3 3.9
to cram
16 3.2
to stuff
243 2.0
to fill
∞ 1.0
to top up
3 3.2

Surface Forms

fill infinitive
filled past
filled past participle
filling present participle
fills third person singular

Etymology

The verb fill is related to full ('not empty') and originally meant 'make full', which is why we talk about filling a cup, a cavity, or a room as people come in.