fill
fill is a 4-letter English word with 23 senses as noun, adjective, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One of the thills or shafts of a carriage. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
- adjective. To make full; to supply with as much as can be held or contained; to put or pour into, till no more can be received; to occupy the whole capacity of.
- adjective. To furnish an abudant supply to; to furnish with as mush as is desired or desirable; to occupy the whole of; to swarm in or overrun.
- adjective. To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
- adjective. To possess and perform the duties of; to officiate in, as an incumbent; to occupy; to hold; as, a king fills a throne; the president fills the office of chief magistrate; the speaker of the House fills the chair.
- adjective. To supply with an incumbent; as, to fill an office or a vacancy.
- adjective. To press and dilate, as a sail; as, the wind filled the sails.
- adjective. To trim (a yard) so that the wind shall blow on the after side of the sails.
- adjective. To make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel.
- intransitive verb. To become full; to have the whole capacity occupied; to have an abundant supply; to be satiated; as, corn fills well in a warm season; the sail fills with the wind.
- intransitive verb. To fill a cup or glass for drinking.
- transitive verb. A full supply, as much as supplies want; as much as gives complete satisfaction.
- noun. a quantity sufficient to satisfy
"he ate his fill of potatoes"
"she had heard her fill of gossip"
- noun. any material that fills a space or container
"there was not enough fill for the trench"
- verb. plug with a substance
"fill a cavity"
- verb. become full
"The pool slowly filled with water"
"The theater filled up slowly"
- verb. make full, also in a metaphorical sense
"fill a container"
"fill the child with pride"
- verb. fill or meet a want or need
- verb. fill to satisfaction
"I am sated"
- verb. eat until one is sated
"He filled up on turkey"
- verb. appoint someone to (a position or a job)
- verb. assume, as of positions or roles
"She took the job as director of development"
"he occupies the position of manager"
- verb. occupy the whole of
"The liquid fills the container"
Synonyms
filling, fulfil, fulfill, meet, satisfy, replete, sate, satiate, occupy, take
Common word forms
fills, filled, filler, filles, filling, fillable
Words from these letters
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