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FILL OUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fill out mean?
• FILL OUT (verb)
The verb FILL OUT has 6 senses:
1. write all the required information onto a form
2. make bigger or better or more complete
3. supplement what is thought to be deficient
4. line or stuff with soft material
6. become round, plump, or shapely
Familiarity information: FILL OUT used as a verb is common.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Write all the required information onto a form
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
complete; fill in; fill out; make out
Context example:
make out a form
"Fill out" entails doing...:
get down; put down; set down; write down (put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Make bigger or better or more complete
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
fill out; round out
Hypernyms (to "fill out" is one way to...):
enrich (make better or improve in quality)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 3
Meaning:
Supplement what is thought to be deficient
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
eke out; fill out
Context example:
Braque eked out his collages with charcoal
Hypernyms (to "fill out" is one way to...):
supplement (add as a supplement to what seems insufficient)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Line or stuff with soft material
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
fill out; pad
Context example:
pad a bra
Hypernyms (to "fill out" is one way to...):
stuff (cram into a cavity)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fill out"):
rat (give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something with something
Sense 5
Meaning:
Make fat or plump
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
fat; fatten; fatten out; fatten up; fill out; flesh out; plump; plump out
Context example:
We will plump out that poor starving child
Hypernyms (to "fill out" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
"Fill out" entails doing...:
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 6
Meaning:
Become round, plump, or shapely
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
Context example:
The young woman is fleshing out
Hypernyms (to "fill out" is one way to...):
gain; put on (increase (one's body weight))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Context examples
If you fill out the paperwork before this date, you should get approval sooner than you estimate and with an attractive interest rate.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
She saw him leave the house with his overcoat and return without it, though the day was chill and raw, and promptly she saw his cheeks fill out slightly and the fire of hunger leave his eyes.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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