Synonyms for Filling
ˈfɪl ɪŋfill·ing

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1. filling, fillnoun

   any material that fills a space or container

   "there was not enough fill for the trench"

   Synonyms:
   weft, fill, pick, woof, filling

2. fillingnoun

   flow into something (as a container)

   Synonyms:
   weft, fill, pick, woof

3. fillingnoun

   a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc.

   Synonyms:
   weft, fill, pick, woof

4. woof, weft, filling, picknoun

   the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving

   Synonyms:
   cream, pickaxe, selection, pick, choice, plectrum, picking, woof, filling, pickax, option, plectron, fill, weft

5. fillingnoun

   (dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth

   "when he yawned I could see the gold fillings in his teeth"; "an informal British term for `filling' is `stopping'"

   Synonyms:
   weft, fill, pick, woof

6. fillingnoun

   the act of filling something

   Synonyms:
   weft, fill, pick, woof

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1. • Change Of Integrity
   • Concoction
   • Dental Appliance
   • Dentistry
   • Flow
   • Material
   • Yarn

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1. List of paraphrases for "filling":

   infilling, fill, filler, refilling, infill, refill, backfilling, bulking, bridging, backfill, populating, yau, completing, refuelling, populate, bridge, loading

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1. May Lamberton Becker:

   Filling a bookcase is like gathering a social circle.

2. Chuck Schumer:

   It is unseemly to be moving forward so fast on confirming a Supreme Court justice with a lifetime appointment while this big gray cloud of an FBI investigation hangs over the presidency, you can bet if the shoe were on the other foot and a Democratic president was under investigation by the FBI the Republicans would be howling at the moon about filling a Supreme Court seat in such circumstances. Elizabeth Warren added on Twitter :.

3. Plato, from a footnote in The Colloquy of Monos and Una, Edgar Allen Poe:

   It will be hard to discover a better [method of education] than that which the experience of so many ages has already discovered, and this may be summed up as consisting in gymnastics for the body, and _music_ for the soul... For this reason is a musical education so essential; since it causes Rhythm and Harmony to penetrate most intimately into the soul, taking the strongest hold upon it, filling it with _beauty_ and making the man _beautiful-minded_.

4. Chris Hemsworth:

   It was lots of big vegetable soups and giant salads, you feel like it’s a large meal and you have a sense that you’re filling up.

5. Jules Renard:

   Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.