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1. Make full, also in a metaphorical sense
   "fill a container"; "fill the child with pride"; "fill up a container";
   - fill up, make full
    
2. Become full
   "The pool slowly filled with water"; "The theatre filled up slowly";
   - fill up
    
3. Take up all the available space
   "The liquid fills the container";
   - occupy
    
4. Assume, as of positions or roles
   "She filled the job as director of development";
   - take, occupy
    
5. Obtain something that is wanted or needed
   - meet, satisfy, fulfill [N. Amer], fulfil [Brit, Cdn]
    
6. Appoint someone to (a position or a job)
    
7. Eat until one is sated
   "He filled up on turkey";
   - fill up
    
8. Fill to satisfaction
   "I am filled";
   - satiate, sate, replete
    
9. Plug with a substance
   "fill a cavity"

1. A quantity sufficient to satisfy
   "he ate his fill of potatoes"; "she had heard her fill of gossip"
    
2. Any material that fills a space or container
   "there was not enough fill for the trench";
   - filling

Derived forms: filled, fills, filling

See also: fill in, fill out, filled, unfilled

Type of: alter, be, bushel [US], cater, change, change state, consume, do work, doctor, eat, employ, engage, enough, fix, furbish up, have, hire, ingest, material, mend, modify, nuff [non-standard], ply, provide, repair, restore, stuff, sufficiency, supply, take, take in, touch on, turn, work

Antonym: empty

Encyclopedia: Fill