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1. Supply with information on a specific topic
    
2. (art) represent the effect of shade or shadow on
   - shade
    
3. Be a substitute
   "The young teacher had to fill in for the sick colleague";
   - substitute, sub [informal], stand in
    
4. Write all the required information onto a form
   "fill in this questionnaire, please!";
   - complete, fill out, make out

1. Someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
   "we need extra employees for summer fill-ins";
   - stand-in, substitute, relief, reliever, backup, backup man

Derived forms: fills in, filled in, filling in, fill-ins

See also: fill

Type of: change, compeer, draw, equal, exchange, inform, interchange, match, paint, peer

Encyclopedia: Fill-in