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English verb: fill out | |||
| 1. | fill out (communication) write all the required information onto a form | ||
| Samples | Fill out this questionnaire, please!. Make out a form. | ||
| Synonyms | complete, fill in, make out | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Entail | get down, put down, set down, write down | ||
| 2. | fill out (change) make bigger or better or more complete | ||
| Synonyms | round out | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | enrich | ||
| 3. | fill out (possession) supplement what is thought to be deficient | ||
| Samples | He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons. Braque eked out his collages with charcoal. | ||
| Synonyms | eke out | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | supplement | ||
| 4. | fill out (contact) line or stuff with soft material | ||
| Samples | Pad a bra. | ||
| Synonyms | pad | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s something with something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | stuff | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | rat | ||
| 5. | fill out (consumption) make fat or plump | ||
| Samples | We will plump out that poor starving child. | ||
| Synonyms | fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, flesh out, plump, plump out | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | alter, change, modify | ||
| Entail | feed, give | ||
| 6. | fill out (body) become round, plump, or shapely | ||
| Samples | The young woman is fleshing out. | ||
| Synonyms | flesh out, round | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | gain, put on | ||
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