1. (usually followed by ‘with’ or used as a combining form) generously supplied with
   "fog-filled air"; "theirs was a house filled with laughter"; "a large hall filled with rows of desks"
    
2. (of purchase orders) completed or delivered
   "The warehouse processed all the filled orders by the end of the day"
    
3. (of time) taken up
   "well-filled hours"

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"

See also: full, occupied, plump, shade

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

Antonym: discharge, empty, unfilled

Encyclopedia: Fill, Peter