fulfil
/fʊlˈfɪl/ verb B2- UK standard spelling of fulfill.
He/she/it fulfils · Past fulfilled · Past participle fulfilled · -ing form fulfilling
Verb forms
- Base form
- fulfil
- He/she/it
- fulfils
- Past
- fulfilled
- Past participle
- fulfilled
- -ing form
- fulfilling
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
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“I do not know, sir; it was to fulfil the last instructions of Captain Leclere, who, when dying, gave me a packet for Marshal Bertrand.”
I shall do my duty as conscientiously as I can, and fulfil my promise to the dying man.
Speak, then, without reserve, as without hatred; tell the truth, the whole truth; I do not know, never may know, the persons of whom you are about to speak; besides, I am an Italian, and not a Frenchman, and belong to God, and not to man, and I shall shortly retire to my convent, which I have only quitted to fulfil the last wishes of a dying man.”
“Well, then, only fulfil your promise of rescuing Peppino, and henceforward you shall receive not only devotion, but the most absolute obedience from myself and those under me that one human being can render to another.”
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