Synonyms for fill
fɪlfill

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1. fill

   To satisfy is to furnish just enough to meet physical, mental, or spiritual desire. To sate or satiate is to gratify desire so fully as for a time to extinguish it. To cloy or surfeit is to gratify to the point of revulsion or disgust. Glut is a strong but somewhat coarse word applied to the utmost satisfaction of vehement appetites and passions; as, to glut a vengeful spirit with slaughter; we speak of glutting the market with a supply so excessive as to extinguish the demand. Much less than is needed to satisfy may suffice a frugal or abstemious person; less than a sufficiency may content one of a patient and submissive spirit. Compare PAY; REQUITE.

   Synonyms:
   cloy, content, glut, sate, satiate, satisfy, suffice, surfeit

   Antonyms:
   check, deny, disappoint, refuse, restrain, restrict, starve, stint, straiten, tantalize

   Preposition:
   Satisfy with food, with gifts, etc.; satisfy one (in the sense of make satisfaction) for labors and sacrifices; satisfy oneself by or upon inquiry.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fill

   Synonyms:
   replenish, content, supply, satisfy, gorge, glut, occupy, appoint, stuff, store, rise, swell, grow, expand, increase

   Antonyms:
   exhaust, deprive, drain, dissatisfy, stint, vacate, misappoint, subside, shrink, ebb, evaporate, diminish

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fillnoun

   a quantity sufficient to satisfy

   "he ate his fill of potatoes"; "she had heard her fill of gossip"

   Synonyms:
   filling

   Antonyms:
   empty, discharge

2. filling, fillverb

   any material that fills a space or container

   "there was not enough fill for the trench"

   Synonyms:
   weft, pick, woof, filling

   Antonyms:
   empty, discharge

3. fill, fill up, make fullverb

   make full, also in a metaphorical sense

   "fill a container"; "fill the child with pride"

   Synonyms:
   take, fulfil, satisfy, meet, sate, replete, close, make full, fill up, occupy, fulfill, satiate

   Antonyms:
   discharge, empty

4. fill, fill upverb

   become full

   "The pool slowly filled with water"; "The theater filled up slowly"

   Synonyms:
   take, fulfil, satisfy, meet, sate, replete, close, make full, fill up, occupy, fulfill, satiate

   Antonyms:
   discharge, empty

5. occupy, fillverb

   occupy the whole of

   "The liquid fills the container"

   Synonyms:
   lodge in, invade, fulfill, occupy, satisfy, replete, engross, make full, fulfil, meet, worry, satiate, absorb, engage, busy, concern, fill up, reside, interest, take, sate, use up

   Antonyms:
   discharge, empty

6. fill, take, occupyverb

   assume, as of positions or roles

   "She took the job as director of development"; "he occupies the position of manager"; "the young prince will soon occupy the throne"

   Synonyms:
   require, read, occupy, subscribe to, withdraw, lead, ingest, take on, carry, deal, assume, have, busy, hold, choose, fulfill, study, learn, absorb, necessitate, consume, drive, fill up, consider, need, rent, pick out, sate, contract, adopt, film, remove, demand, lease, take aim, invade, meet, take up, train, strike, use up, select, take, engage, concern, make, claim, satisfy, get, worry, get hold of, exact, take away, pack, engross, call for, take in, bring, submit, convey, interest, fulfil, shoot, aim, direct, charter, make full, contain, replete, lodge in, subscribe, reside, satiate, involve, acquire, look at, postulate, hire, accept, guide, admit, ask, conduct

   Antonyms:
   discharge, empty

7. meet, satisfy, fill, fulfill, fulfilverb

   fill or meet a want or need

   Synonyms:
   conform to, touch, foregather, gather, fulfill, adjoin, see, gratify, carry through, match, suffer, take, fulfil, replete, meet, converge, fit, satisfy, receive, execute, forgather, encounter, get together, run into, cope with, play, make full, run across, carry out, come across, action, accomplish, satiate, assemble, contact, sate, take on, live up to, occupy, fill up

   Antonyms:
   empty, discharge

8. fillverb

   appoint someone to (a position or a job)

   Synonyms:
   take, fulfil, satisfy, meet, sate, replete, make full, fill up, occupy, fulfill, satiate

   Antonyms:
   empty, discharge

9. fill up, fillverb

   eat until one is sated

   "He filled up on turkey"

   Synonyms:
   take, fulfil, satisfy, meet, sate, replete, close, make full, fill up, occupy, fulfill, satiate

   Antonyms:
   discharge, empty

10. satiate, sate, replete, fillverb

    fill to satisfaction

    "I am sated"

    Synonyms:
    stuff, pig out, replete, gorge, overindulge, glut, occupy, overeat, make full, fulfil, scarf out, gourmandize, englut, satiate, satisfy, overgorge, sate, fill up, engorge, fulfill, meet, take, gormandize, ingurgitate, binge, gormandise

    Antonyms:
    empty, discharge

11. fillverb

    plug with a substance

    "fill a cavity"

    Synonyms:
    take, fulfil, satisfy, meet, sate, replete, make full, fill up, occupy, fulfill, satiate

    Antonyms:
    empty, discharge

Matched Categories

1. • Be
   • Eat
   • Enough
   • Hire
   • Repair
   • Work

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1. roadbasenoun

   an amalgamation of finely ground rock and gravel (about 5mm in size) used as preparation or sometimes even as the final surface of a road, but usually it is what sits just below the bitumen (the black top).

   we used enough roadbase on that driveway to fill a swimming pool.

   Submitted by anonymous on June 13, 2022  

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1. fillverb

   Synonyms:
   make full, fill up

2. fillverb

   Synonyms:
   store, supply, furnish, replenish, stock

3. fillverb

   Synonyms:
   satisfy, content, GLUT

4. fillverb

   Synonyms:
   occupy (as a place of trust), hold

5. fillverb

   Synonyms:
   fill a glass or cup

6. fillverb

   Synonyms:
   become full, be filled, fill up

7. fillnoun

   Synonyms:
   full supply

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1. fillnoun

   Synonyms:
   thill, shaft

2. fillnoun

   Synonyms:
   sufficiency, plenty

3. fillverb

   Synonyms:
   satisfy, cloy, satiate, sate, glut, stuff, occupy, hold, replenish, expand, dilate, distend, inflate, bloat, pervade

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1. List of paraphrases for "fill":

   filler, filling, populate, embankment, padding, backfill, refill, bridge, complete, bridging, cover, meet, fulfil, populating, address, occupy, plug, fulfill, fill-in, completing, close, infill, infilling, remedy, backfilling

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How to use fill in a sentence?

1. Kaiser Family Foundation:

   The increase in COVID-19 cases and news of the Delta variant spreading in the U.S. has made some people say they are more likely to wear a mask in public or avoid large gatherings, though this is mainly driven by vaccinated adults, seeing their friends get sick and local hospitals fill up again with COVID patients may speed them along and add to their ranks.

2. Sunil Lucas:

   She had big shoes to fill, expectations were huge, but with simplicity, unstinting love and faith she proved herself.

3. The ESA:

   Right now, there is still a lot of' viewing margin' around the disc, enabling stunning detail to be captured by FSI out to about 3.5 million kilometres, equivalent to five times the radius of the Sun, at closest approach on 26 March, which will see the spacecraft pass within about 0.3 times the Sun-Earth distance, the Sun will fill a much larger portion of the telescope's field of view.

4. Somadeva:

   The empty beds of rivers fill again; Trees leafless now renew their vernal bloom; Returning moons their lustrous phase resume; But man a second youth expects in vain.*

5. Purvi Raniga:

   A smile has the power to fill your heart with love and light.”