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Added 7 October 2026

fill

/fɪl/ verb

In Latin: pleō Wiktionary

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To make full To add contents to so that it is full.
She filled a glass with milk.
To add contents to so that it is full.
She filled a glass with milk.
To enter (something), making it full.
The doors opened and guests filled the auditorium.

noun

A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
Don't feed him any more: he's had his fill.
An amount that fills a container.
The mixer returned to the plant for another fill.
The filling of a container or area.
That machine can do 20 fills per minute.

noun

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

Origin

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”)

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