verb
1. write all the required information onto a form (Freq. 5)
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fill out this questionnaire, please!
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make out a form
• Entailment: ↑write down, ↑set down, ↑get down, ↑put down
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
2. make bigger or better or more complete (Freq. 1)
• Syn: ↑round out
• Hypernyms: ↑enrich
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
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Something ——s something
3. line or stuff with soft material
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pad a bra
• Syn: ↑pad
• Hypernyms: ↑stuff
• Hyponyms: ↑rat
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
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Somebody ——s something with something
4. make fat or plump
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We will plump out that poor starving child
• Syn:
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
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Somebody ——s somebody
5. supplement what is thought to be deficient
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He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons
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Braque eked out his collages with charcoal
• Syn: ↑eke out
• Hypernyms: ↑supplement
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
6. become round, plump, or shapely
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The young woman is fleshing out
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s
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(of a person) put on weight to a noticeable extent
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fill out [phrasal verb]
1 : to increase in size : to become larger and heavier
The tree looks weak now but should begin to fill out in a few years.
It was easier to find clothes that fit him once he began to fill out.
2 fill (something) out or fill out (something) chiefly US : to complete (something, such as a form) by providing necessary information
fill out [=fill in] a form
fill out an application
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Main Entry: ↑fill
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ˌfill ˈout derived
to become larger, rounder or fatter
Useful english dictionary. 2012.