1. Make full, also in a metaphorical sense
   "fill the child with pride"; "fill a container";
   - fill up
    
2. Become full
   "The pool slowly filled with water"; "The theatre filled up slowly";
   - fill up
    
3. Take up all the available space
   "The liquid fills the container";
   - occupy
    
4. Obtain something that is wanted, needed or required
   "She filled the prescription at the pharmacy";
   - fit, conform to, meet, satisfy, fulfill [N. Amer], fulfil [Brit, Cdn]
    
5. Fill to satisfaction
   "I am filled";
   - satiate, sate, replete
    
6. Eat until one is sated
   "He filled up on turkey";
   - fill up
    
7. Plug with a substance
   "fill a cavity"
    
8. Assume, as of positions or roles
   "She filled the job as director of development";
   - take, occupy
    
9. Appoint someone to (a position or a job)
   "They filled the vacant manager position with an internal candidate"

1. A quantity sufficient to satisfy
   "he ate his fill of potatoes"; "she had heard her fill of gossip"
    
2. Any material that fills a space or container
   "there was not enough fill for the trench";
   - filling

Derived forms: filling, fills, filled

See also: plump, shade

Type of: alter, be, bushel [US], cater, change, change state, consume, doctor [informal], eat, employ, engage, enough, fix, have, hire, ingest, material, mend, modify, nuff [non-standard], provide, put up, repair, stuff, sufficiency, supply, take, take in, take on, turn, work

Antonym: discharge, empty

Encyclopedia: Fill, Peter