fulfill
/fʊlˈfɪl/ verb B2- To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.). · You made a promise, son, and now you must fulfill it.
- To emotionally or artistically satisfy; to develop one's gifts to the fullest. · This is the most fulfilling work I've ever done.
- To obey, follow, comply with (a rule, requirement etc.). · Unfortunately, you don't fulfill the criteria for extra grants at the present time.
- To package, distribute, or ship goods.
He/she/it fulfills · Past fulfilled · Past participle fulfilled · -ing form fulfilling
Verb forms
- Base form
- fulfill
- He/she/it
- fulfills
- Past
- fulfilled
- Past participle
- fulfilled
- -ing form
- fulfilling
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In order, doubtless, that he might not be disturbed while fulfilling his sacred mission, the priest rose as soon as d’Avrigny departed, and not only bolted the door through which the doctor had just left, but also that leading to Madame de Villefort’s room.
Holmes’s calculation was fulfilled within a very few minutes by the appearance of Billy, the page, with the very letter which we were expecting.
“If it be so,” replied the magistrate, “rely upon every reparation being made; meanwhile, I am the bearer of an order of arrest, and although I most reluctantly perform the task assigned me, it must, nevertheless, be fulfilled.
Did I ever say to you, when you were fulfilling your character as a royalist, and cut off the head of one of my party, ‘My son, you have committed a murder?’ No, I said, ‘Very well, sir, you have gained the victory; tomorrow, perchance, it will be our turn.’”
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