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

to fill

785 1.0
To satisfy a need or a requirement
  • verb
  • /fɪl/
translation icon : satisfacer
  • The announcement and email asked students to click on a URL to fill in the web-based survey questionnaire.
  • fill a gap
  • fill the void
  • fill the vacuum

All you're doing is trying to fill your emptiness.

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Examples

  • And we have found other things to fill those roles and those needs.

  • So, you think you might fill the bill?

    Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025)

  • You need to absolutely fill this out.

  • Ah, I need to fill this time with screen time.

  • Last night, I went ahead and filled out one of these.

    Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (2013)

  • All students in the chosen classes were then asked to fill out a questionnaire.

    Academic text (2008)

  • Students with autism typically lack the ability to fill unstructured time with productive activity.

    Academic text (1999)

  • Scores of students who participated in his seminars now fill high academic or policy-making positions.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Saving becomes for them an absorbing occupation that fills time, drawers, and shelves.

    Academic text (2011)

  • The charity event aims to fill the community's need for resources and support.

Synonyms

to fit
vsto fill
969 1.0

To match or go well with something

applies to meeting needs or rules rather than mere compatibility
to meet
vsto fill
660 1.3

To satisfy a rule or need

is identical in meaning and used interchangeably
to fulfill
vsto fill
  • US
265 2.8

To do what is required or promised

focuses on meeting the need rather than the doing
to satisfy
vsto fill
243 2.8

Meet a rule or requirement

is the same sense expressed with different wording
to conform to
vsto fill
50 3.7

Do what rules or standards say you must

focuses on satisfying a need rather than only following rules
to answer
vsto fill
26 3.5

To be enough to meet a need or purpose

emphasizes meeting the requirement rather than mere adequacy
to sate
vsto fill
11 6.2

To fully satisfy a need like hunger or curiosity

refers to meeting a need not necessarily complete appetite satisfaction
to fill the bill
vsto fill
2 4.0

To be right for a particular purpose or need

covers meeting a need more generally not only single-purpose suitability

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 Well

to exceed
255 4.1
to satisfy
243 2.8
to fill
785 1.0
to meet
660 1.3

Surface Forms

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

Etymology

The verb fill comes from full ('not empty'), so to 'fill a need' or 'fill a requirement' is to make something complete or no longer empty.