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Fill Out (Verb)

Meaning 1

Make bigger or better or more complete.

Classification

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..

Synonyms

  • Round Out

Hypernyms

  • Enrich

Meaning 2

Line or stuff with soft material; "pad a bra".

Classification

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

Synonyms

  • Pad

Hypernyms

  • Stuff

Hyponyms

  • Rat

Meaning 3

Make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child".

Classification

Verbs of eating and drinking.

Examples

  • Regular meals and exercise will help fill out that scrawny physique in a few months.
  • After a few weeks of eating well, the malnourished child began to fill out.
  • During the holiday season, the formerly skinny turkey is plump enough to fill out the entire oven.
  • This winter, regular consumption of nutritious meals will fill out the underweight athlete.
  • By the summer holidays, they expect the child who suffered from an eating disorder to fill out and be healthy again.

Synonyms

  • Flesh Out
  • Plump Out
  • Fatten Up
  • Fat
  • Fatten
  • Fatten Out
  • Plump

Hypernyms

  • Change
  • Alter
  • Modify

Meaning 4

Supplement what is thought to be deficient; "He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons"; "Braque eked out his collages with charcoal".

Classification

Verbs of buying, selling, owning.

Examples

  • She tried to fill out the questionnaire as quickly as possible but found some sections required extensive personal details.
  • He fill out the spaces in the room with an array of eclectic furniture pieces.
  • The writer managed to fully engage the audience by first trying to fill out character descriptions for the story’s main cast.
  • Filling out his passport proved to be an ordeal due to its various personal and physical documentation demands.
  • Every Monday, office employees fill out time sheets detailing the total hours they had worked the previous week.

Synonyms

  • Eke Out

Hypernyms

  • Supplement

Meaning 5

Become round, plump, or shapely; "The young woman is fleshing out".

Classification

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care.

Synonyms

  • Flesh Out
  • Round

Hypernyms

  • Put On
  • Gain

Meaning 6

Write all the required information onto a form; "fill out this questionnaire, please!"; "make out a form".

Classification

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.

Synonyms

  • Fill In
  • Make Out
  • Complete
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