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
From the library
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.
Two days afterwards they carried Matthew Cuthbert over his homestead threshold and away from the fields he had tilled and the orchards he had loved and the trees he had planted; and then Avonlea settled back to its usual placidity and even at Green Gables affairs slipped into their old groove and work was done and duties fulfilled with regularity as before, although always with the aching sense of “loss in all familiar things.” Anne, new to grief, thought it almost sad that it could be so--that they _could_ go on in the old way without Matthew.
One condition mentioned in the Ritual would then be fulfilled.
It was late when my friend returned, and I could see, by a glance at his haggard and anxious face, that the high hopes with which he had started had not been fulfilled.
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