fill
/fɪl/ verb A1- To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full. · She filled a glass with milk.· dreams filled with surreal imagery
- To enter (something), making it full. · The doors opened and guests filled the auditorium.
- To occupy fully, to take up all of. · The smell of spring filled the air.
- To become full. · The bucket filled with rain· The room filled with thick smoke.
- To become pervaded with something. · My heart filled with joy.
- To satisfy or meet (as, an order, request, or requirement). · The pharmacist filled my prescription for penicillin.· We can't let the library close! It fills a great need in the community.
- To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy. · Sorry, no more applicants. The position has been filled.
- To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it. · Dr. Smith filled Jim's cavity with silver amalgam.
He/she/it fills · Past filled · Past participle filled · -ing form filling
Verb forms
- Base form
- fill
- He/she/it
- fills
- Past
- filled
- Past participle
- filled
- -ing form
- filling
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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One carried panniers filled with money, the other sacks weighted with grain.
Dorothy went to the Witch’s cupboard to fill her basket with food for the journey, and there she saw the Golden Cap.
And although the entertainment was fixed for twelve o’clock, an hour previous to that time the balcony was filled with impatient and expectant guests, consisting of the favored part of the crew of the Pharaon, and other personal friends of the bridegroom, the whole of whom had arrayed themselves in their choicest costumes, in order to do greater honor to the occasion.
And the Scarecrow found a tree full of nuts and filled Dorothy’s basket with them, so that she would not be hungry for a long time.
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