verb
- Make full, also in a metaphorical sense.
- usage: "fill a container"; "fill the child with pride"
- Become full.
- usage: "The pool slowly filled with water"; "The theater filled up slowly"
- Occupy the whole of.
- usage: "The liquid fills the container"
- Assume, as of positions or roles.
- usage: "She took the job as director of development"; "he occupies the position of manager"; "the young prince will soon occupy the throne"
- Fill or meet a want or need.
- Appoint someone to (a position or a job.
- synonyms: fill
- Eat until one is sated.
- usage: "He filled up on turkey"
- Fill to satisfaction.
- usage: "I am sated"
- Plug with a substance.
- usage: "fill a cavity"
- synonyms: fill
adjective
- Usually followed by `with' or used as a combining form. ( generously supplied with)
- usage: "theirs was a house filled with laughter"; "a large hall filled with rows of desks"; "fog-filled air"
- Of purchase orders that have been filled.
- Of time. ( taken up)
- usage: "well-filled hours"
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