Definitions for fill

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IPA: /fɪl/

Fill is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 17 anagrams from letters in fill (fill).

Definitions for fill

noun

1. a full supply; enough to satisfy want or desire:
2. an amount of something sufficient for filling; charge.
3. Civil Engineering, Building Trades. a quantity of earth, stones, etc., for building up the level of an area of ground: Compare backfill.
4. the feed and water in the digestive tract of a livestock animal, especially that consumed before marketing.

Idioms

1. fill and stand on, Nautical. (of a sailing vessel) to proceed on a tack after being hove to or halted facing the wind; fill away.
2. fill the bill. bill1 (def 16).

Verb phrases

1. fill away, Nautical. to fall off the wind and proceed on a board. to brace the yards, so that sails that have been aback will stand full.
2. fill in, to supply missing or desired information: to complete by adding detail, as a design or drawing: to substitute for: to fill with some material: Informal. to supply (someone) with information:
3. fill out, to complete (a document, list, etc.) by supplying missing or desired information. to become larger, fuller, or rounder, as the figure:
4. fill up, to fill completely: to become completely filled:

verb (used with object)

1. to make full; put as much as can be held into:
2. to occupy to the full capacity:
3. to supply to an extreme degree or plentifully:
4. to satisfy fully the hunger of; satiate:
5. to put into a receptacle:
6. to be plentiful throughout:
7. to extend throughout; pervade completely:
8. to furnish with an occupant:
9. to provide (an office or opening) with an incumbent:
10. to occupy and perform the duties of (a vacancy, position, post, etc.).
11. to supply the requirements or contents of (an order), as for goods; execute.
12. to supply (a blank space) with written matter, decorative work, etc.
13. to meet satisfactorily, as requirements:
14. to make up, compound, or otherwise provide the contents of (a medical prescription).
15. to stop up or close (a cavity, hole, etc.):
16. Cookery. to insert a filling into:
17. Nautical. to distend (a sail) by pressure of the wind so as to impart headway to a vessel. to brace (a yard) so that the sail will catch the wind on its after side.
18. to adulterate:
19. Civil Engineering, Building Trades. to build up the level of (an area) with earth, stones, etc.

verb (used without object)

1. to become full:
2. to increase in atmospheric pressure:
3. to become distended, as sails with the wind.

Origin of fill

before 900; Middle English fillen, Old English fyllan; cognate with German füllen, Gothic fulljan to make full; see full¹

Examples for fill

His regular partner was late that day, and Police Officer Wenjian Liu volunteered to fill in.

What's Lanning done that he has a right to fill Allister's place with us?

They were allowed to bring one bag per family, which most fill with food.

But politicians abhor a rhetorical vacuum, and they have clamored to fill it.

"Come, George, fill up your glass," said Ashton repeatedly; but George declined.

They are afflicted with “progressive spiritual emptiness,” he said, which no amount of academic honors and degrees can fill.

It got so bad, that the school resorted to “Groupon-like services” to fill seats.

It is for me to fill your cups again, since you have drained them to my dear lads of the white jerkin.

I will sign you a blank cheque, which your uncle can fill up with the amount he has stolen.

There are plenty of other people ready to fill in the shadows.