fill

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a quantity sufficient to satisfy

   We ate our fill of potatoes.

2. 2
   noun

   any material that fills a space or container

   there was not enough fill for the trench

3. 3
   verb

   plug with a substance

   fill a cavity

4. 4
   verb

   become full

   The pool slowly filled with water

5. 5
   verb

   make full, also in a metaphorical sense

   fill a container

6. 6
   verb

   eat until one is sated

   We filled up on turkey.

7. 7
   verb

   occupy the whole of

   The liquid fills the container

8. 8
   verb

   To make full

   She filled a glass with milk.

Etymology

From Middle English fillen, fullen, from Old English fyllan (“to fill, fill up, replenish, satisfy; complete, fulfill”), from Proto-West Germanic *fullijan, from Proto-Germanic *fullijaną (“to make full, fill”), from *fullaz (“full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”). Cognate with Scots fill (“to fill”), West Frisian folje (“to fill”), Low German füllen (“to fill”), Dutch vullen (“to fill”), German füllen (“to fill”), Danish fylde (“to fill”), Swedish fylla (“to fill”), Norwegian fylle (“to fill”), Icelandic fylla (“to fill”) and Latin plenus (“full”)