Fill Out (Verb)
Meaning 1
Make bigger or better or more complete.
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Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
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Meaning 2
Line or stuff with soft material; "pad a bra".
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Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
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Meaning 3
Make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child".
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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.
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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".
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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.
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Meaning 5
Become round, plump, or shapely; "The young woman is fleshing out".
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Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care.