fill
/fɪl/ · verb
Meaning
- To occupy fully, to take up all of.
- To add contents to (a container, cavity or the like) so that it is full.
- To enter (something), making it full.
- To become full.
- To become pervaded with something.
- To satisfy or obey (an order, request or requirement).
- (after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
- An amount that fills a container.
- The filling of a container or area.
- Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
- Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and exposed by excavation; fill soil.
- An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.
- One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
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