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FILL UP
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Irregular inflected form: filled up
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Become full
Example:
The theater filled up slowly
Synonyms:
fill; fill up
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
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"):
water (fill with tears)
flood (become filled to overflowing)
rack up (supply a rack with feed for (horses or other animals))
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 2
Meaning:
Make full, also in a metaphorical sense
Example:
fill the child with pride
Synonyms:
fill; fill up; make full
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
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"):
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)
prime (fill with priming liquid)
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)
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 3
Meaning:
Eat until one is sated
Example:
He filled up on turkey
Synonyms:
fill; fill up
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "fill up" is one way to...):
eat (take in solid food)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 4
Meaning:
Fill or stop up
Example:
Can you close the cracks with caulking?
Synonyms:
close; fill up
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
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
Context examples:
By All Saints' day, however ere the last leaves had fluttered to earth in the Wilverley and Holmesley glades, he had filled up his full numbers, and mustered under his banner as stout a following of Hampshire foresters as ever twanged their war-bows.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The research, carried out in Sao Paulo, Brazil, found that environmental concentrations of particles with a diameter of 7-100 nanometers (nm) increase by 30 per cent when higher prices of ethanol forces drivers of dual-fuel (or flexible-fuel) vehicles to fill up with gasoline rather than biofuel.
(Ethanol to gasoline switch raises nanoparticles in air, SciDev.Net)
Fill up your pockets.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I did feel, sometimes, for a little while, that I could have wished my wife had been my counsellor; had had more character and purpose, to sustain me and improve me by; had been endowed with power to fill up the void which somewhere seemed to be about me; but I felt as if this were an unearthly consummation of my happiness, that never had been meant to be, and never could have been.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A pause of some seconds succeeded, filled up by the low, vague hum of numbers; Miss Miller walked from class to class, hushing this indefinite sound.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
And as for the rest, they may be filled up by anybody.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Mrs. Thorpe and her son, who were acquainted with everything, and who seemed only to want Mr. Morland's consent, to consider Isabella's engagement as the most fortunate circumstance imaginable for their family, were allowed to join their counsels, and add their quota of significant looks and mysterious expressions to fill up the measure of curiosity to be raised in the unprivileged younger sisters.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Amy did not know why he looked at her so kindly, nor why he filled up her book with his own name, and devoted himself to her for the rest of the evening in the most delightful manner; but the impulse that wrought this agreeable change was the result of one of the new impressions which both of them were unconsciously giving and receiving.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I very soon started back from there, for the empty dog-kennel was filled up with a great dog—deep mouthed and black-haired like Him—and he was very angry at the sight of me, and sprang out to get at me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
April advanced to May: a bright serene May it was; days of blue sky, placid sunshine, and soft western or southern gales filled up its duration.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
