FILL UP (filled up)

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Irregular inflected form: filled up   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does fill up mean? 

• FILL UP (verb)
  The verb FILL UP has 4 senses:

1. make full, also in a metaphorical sense

2. become full

3. fill or stop up

4. eat until one is sated

  Familiarity information: FILL UP used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FILL UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make full, also in a metaphorical sense

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

fill; fill up; make full

Context example:

fill the child with pride

Hypernyms (to "fill up" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Cause:

fill; fill up (become full)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fill up"):

prime (fill with priming liquid)

pack (fill to capacity)

deluge; flood; inundate; swamp (fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid)

charge; load (provide (a device) with something necessary)

lade; laden; load; load up (fill or place a load on)

surcharge (fill to an excessive degree)

lube; lubricate (apply a lubricant to)

electrify (charge (a conductor) with electricity)

impregnate; infuse; instill; tincture (fill, as with a certain quality)

impregnate; saturate (infuse or fill completely)

complete (bring to a whole, with all the necessary parts or elements)

line (fill plentifully)

fill again; refill; replenish (fill something that had previously been emptied)

ink (fill with ink)

overfill (fill beyond capacity)

heap (fill to overflow)

top off (fill to the point of almost overflowing)

populate (fill with inhabitants)

bolster; pad (add padding to)

stuff (fill tightly with a material)

farce; stuff (fill with a stuffing while cooking)

brim (fill as much as possible)

clog; overload (fill to excess so that function is impaired)

clutter; clutter up (fill a space in a disorderly way)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something with something

Sentence example:

They fill up the cart with boxes

Sense 2

Meaning:

Become full

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

fill; fill up

Context example:

The theater filled up slowly

Hypernyms (to "fill up" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fill up"):

flood (become filled to overflowing)

rack up (supply a rack with feed for (horses or other animals))

water (fill with tears)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Fill or stop up

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

close; fill up

Context example:

Can you close the cracks with caulking?

Hypernyms (to "fill up" is one way to...):

fill (plug with a substance)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fill up"):

seal (close with or as if with a seal)

plug; secure; stop up (fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug)

coapt; conglutinate (cause to adhere)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Eat until one is sated

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

fill; fill up

Context example:

He filled up on turkey

Hypernyms (to "fill up" is one way to...):

eat (take in solid food)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

On examining my dwelling, I found that one of the windows of the cottage had formerly occupied a part of it, but the panes had been filled up with wood.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Let us fill up the certificate at once, and I shall take it myself to the registrar and go on to the undertaker.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The invaded lymph vessels then fill up with cancer cells and become blocked.

(Carcinomatous lymphangitis, NCI Dictionary)

He has no occasion to marry, either to fill up his time or his heart.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It's too bad, for there is no time to make other things, and I don't want to fill up with odds and ends.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She filled up the hiatus his silence left by a reply of her own.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

His wonder, his conjectures, and his explanations became in succession hers, with the addition of this single remark—I really have not patience with the general—to fill up every accidental pause.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Their departure made another material change at Mansfield, a chasm which required some time to fill up.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

If you examine this scrap with attention you will come to the conclusion that the man with the stronger hand wrote all his words first, leaving blanks for the other to fill up.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The press marked E was unlocked; and I took out the drawer, had it filled up with straw and tied in a sheet, and returned with it to Cavendish Square.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)