Fill Up

Definition: Fill Up

Fill Up

Verb

1. Make full; "fill a container," "fill the child with pride".

2. Become full; "The pool slowly filled with water"; "The theater filled up slowly".

3. Fill or stop up; "Can you close the cracks with caulking?".

4. Eat until one is sated; "He filled up on turkey".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Fill Up

Closure

Verb: close, occlude, plug; block up, stop up, fill up, bung up, cork up, button up, stuff up, shut up, dam up; blockade, obstruct;

Compensation

Verb: make compensation; compensate, compense; indemnify; counteract, countervail, counterpoise; balance; outbalance, overbalance, counterbalance; set off; hedge, square, give and take; make up for, lee way; cover, fill up, neutralize, nullify; equalize; make good; redeem; (atone).

Completeness

Render complete; Adjective: complete; (accomplish); fill, charge, load, replenish; make up, make good; piece out, eke out; supply deficiencies; fill up, fill in, fill to the brim, fill the measure of; saturate.

Composition

Compose, constitute, form, make; make up, fill up, build up; enter into the composition of; (be a component).

Inaction

Cool one's heels, kick one's heels; while away the time, while away tedious hours; pass the time, fill up the time, beguile the time; talk against time; let the grass grow under one's feet; waste time; (inactive).

Provision

Cater, victual, provision, purvey, forage; beat up for; stock, stock with; make good, replenish; fill, fill up; recruit, feed.

Restoration

Make whole, redintegrate; recoup; make good, make all square; rectify, correct; put right, put to rights, set right, set to rights, set straight; set up; put in order; (arrange); refit, recruit; fill up, fill up the ranks; reinforce.

Crosswords: Fill Up

Let's have a drink and shelter from the showers! Rain, rain, don't go away, fill up the sky, rain through the night, we'll stay cozy and dry. (Follies in Concert; writing credit: James Goldman)

Drive it all day and don't fill up the tank ("Bills, Bills, Bills"; performing artist: Destiny's Child)

To fill up my days since you're gone. (Until I Find You Again; performing artist: Richard Marx)

Adult Education Topic: How to fill up the ice cube trays. Step by step, with slide presentation. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• How To Get Up To $7 Worth Of FREE Gas Every Time You Fill Up. (reference)

• Make Your Own Newspaper/an Illustrated 48-Page How-To Book Plus Five Big, Four-Page Newspapers That Kids Fill Up With Their Own News and Pictures (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Let's Fill Up the House with Stories & Songs (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Helicopter fill up areaFire Season 2000Lower Snake River DistrictLSRD. Credit: Bryan Day.

Fill Up With Fiber. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Gasoline rationing. The busiest spot on the Pennsylvania turnpike. Eastbound motorists stop at this service station for a very good reason: it's the last chance to fill up before entering a gas-rationed area. Credit: Library of Congress.

Give the Guard a fighting chance Fight alongside your friends - Fill up the National Guard. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Come on, Boys!" Give the Guard a fighting chance Fight alongside your friends - Fill up the National Guard. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Clause 3: The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

To love is the only thing which can occupy and fill up eternity.

Joe, fill up the tank for this gentleman.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

If HD is not treated, stool can fill up the large intestine. (references)

Human Rights

Ukraine

This measure did relieve overcrowding to some extent; however, the prisons had begun to fill up again by year's end, and pretrial facilities remained overcrowded. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "fill up": fill up staff vacancies ♦ fill up the ranks ♦ fill up time ♦ To fill up. Additional references.

Afrikaans

vol maak (fill, fill in), invul (fill, fill in). (various references)

Albanian

plotësoj (amplify, appease, complement, complete, consummate, draw, fill, fill in, flesh, fulfil, fulfill, grant, gratify, indulge, make good, make out, make up, meet, perfect, perform, process, realize, refill, replenish, satisfy, supplement, supply), mbush plot, mbush (cement, charge, clog, close, cover in, cram, crowd, draw, fill, fill in, gorge, Grout, heap, imbue, impregnate, infest, inject, inspire, line, load, make out, meet, pad, pervade, pour out, pump, stop up, Stow, stuff, suffuse, tap, write out). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كمل (accomplish, carry through, complete, finish, proceed, replenish, supplement), ‏ملأ تماما. (various references)

Bulgarian 

пълня до горе, препълвам се (overbrim, overfill), препълвам (heap, heap smth. up, overbrim, overcharge, overfill, overflow, pack out), попълвам (bridge, complete, fill in, make out, make up, replenish, supply), подпълвам (pack out, quilt, rat, wad). (various references)

Chinese 

闐 (rumbling sound), 牣 (to stuff). (various references)

Czech

zasypat, zahrnout (comprehend, count, embrace, encompass, include, incorporate, involve, take in), naplnit (fill, pack, prepossess), dolít (refill, replenish, top up). (various references)

Danish

fylde (fill, fill in). (various references)

Dutch

vullen (fill, fill in, pad, stuff, upholster), volschenken (fill, fill in), volmaken (fill, fill in, perfect), stoppen (block, cease, clog, come to a halt, constipate, fill, fill in, halt, lay down, mend, patch, patch up, place, plug up, put, put down, stop, stop up), spekken (accommodate, fill, fill in, provide, supply), invullen (fill, fill in), dempen (fill, fill in), bijvullen (replenish, replenishing). (various references)

Esperanto

plenigi (fill, fill in). (various references)

Faeroese

fylla (fill, fill in). (various references)

Finnish

luoda umpeen. (various references)

French

compléter (fill, fill in). (various references)

Frisian

folje (fill, fill in). (various references)

German

ausfüllen (complete, fill, fill in, fill out, filled, make out, to fill out, write), auffüllen (cover in, dilute, fill, fill in, padding, refill, replenish, replenishment, serve, stock up, tank up, to fill, to fill up, top up). (various references)

Greek 

γεμίζω εντελώσ, φουλάρω. (various references)

Hawaiian

mbush (fill, fill in). (various references)

Hebrew 

למלא ע�" תום, למלא (complete, fill, fulfill, pervade, satisfy, stuff), ל�"תמלא (become full, fill). (various references)

Hungarian

feltankol (tank up), teletölt (replenish, to choke up, to expand, to fill up, to replenish, to stuff). (various references)

Icelandic

fylla (fill, fill in). (various references)

Indonesian

membunting. (various references)

Italian

colmare (bridge, fill, load). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

埋める (a vacant, to bury, to fill a seat, to fill up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

うめたてる (to fill up, to reclaim), うめる (to bury, to fill, to fill up), ふさぐ (to block, to close up, to fill up, to occupy, to plug up, to shut up, to stand in another's way, to stop up, to take up), もる (to fill up, to leak, to prescribe, to run out, to serve). (various references)

Malay

mengisi (fill, fill in), isi (fill, fill in). (various references)

Papiamen

yena (fill, fill in). (various references)

Pig Latin

illfay upay

Polish

wypełnić. (various references)

Portuguese

encher (charge, clog, close, deluge, distend, fill, fill in, flood, full, heap, impregnate, occupy, overspread, pad, pelt, people, perfuse, saturate, stuff, stuffing, suffuse, to fill up). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

complete. (various references)

Romanian

umple pânã la refuz, umple (choke, clog, comprise, contain, cram, crowd, farce, fill, flood, heap, impregnate, inflate, inform, intersperse, Lade, pack, replenish, stain, stock, stop, store, stuff, suffuse, supply), se umple complet, completa (activate, complement, complete, fill, recruit, round, supplement). (various references)

Russian 

заполнять (brim with, brimming, brimming with, fill, fill in, fill out, fill with, filling, pack, pad, populate, populated, populating). (various references)

Scottish

lìon (a net, become full, fill, fill in, fishing net, flax, how many?, lint, net, network, replenish, satiate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ispuniti (carry out, cope, fulfil, fulfill, grout, implement, realize, replenish, stand by, stuff). (various references)

Spanish

llenar (beset, complete, cover, crowd, encumber, equate, fill, fill in, fill out, load, make out, occupy, pack, stuff, take up). (various references)

Sranan

furu (complete, fill, fill in, full, integral). (various references)

Swedish

fylla (booze, drunkenness, fill, fill in, heap, inspire, intoxicate, jag, jagg, jam, line, possess, saturate, stock, strike, stuff, supply, write). (various references)

Turkish

tam doldurmak, ağzına kadar doldurmak. (various references)

Turkmen 

bitirmek. (various references)

Ukrainian

наповнювати (charge, cram, fill, fill in, resound, sprinkle, suffuse), доповнювати (become, complement, eke, supplement). (various references)

Yucatec

chupsik (fill, fill in), chupik (fill, fill in). (various references)

Zulu

-gcwalisa (fill, fill in). (various references)

adimpleantur, adimpleatur, adimplebis, adimplebit, adimplebitis, adimplebitur, adimpleo, adimpleretur, adimplet, adimpleta, adimpletae, adimpleti, adimpletum, adimpletur, adimpletus, adimplevit, aggerem, aggeres, expleant, explendos, explendum, explentibus, expleo explevi expletum, explere, expleret, expleta, explete, expleti, expletis, expletisque, expleto, expletum, expletus, expleverit, explevit, farciretur, imple, impleam, impleamini, impleamur, impleamus, impleant, impleantque, impleantur, implearis, impleas, impleat, impleatis, impleatque, impleatur, implebant, implebat, implebimus, implebis, implebit, implebitis, implebitur, implebo, implebor, implebunt, implebuntur, implens, implent, implentes, impleo, implere, implerem, implerent, implerentur, impleret, impleretur, impleri, imples, implesset, implesti, implestis, implet, impleta, impletae, implete, impleti, impletique, impletis, impletisque, impletum, impletur, impletus, impleverant, impleverat, impleverint, impleveris, impleverit, implevero, impleverunt, implevi, implevimus, implevit, implevitque, opplere, referte, repleo, supplere. (various references)

supplier. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Fill Up" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fiil up, fillup. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: fill, flip, full, pfui, pill, puli, pull.

-3 letters: fil, flu, ill, lip, piu, pul.

-4 letters: if, li, pi, up.

+1 letter: pailful.

+2 letters: pailfuls, pailsful.

+3 letters: painfully, pitifully, plaintful, plentiful.

+4 letters: painfuller, pitifuller, pridefully, spitefully.

+5 letters: painfullest, pitifullest, plentifully, polysulfide, spitefuller.