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Fill in   /fɪl ɪn/   Listen
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verb
1.
Supply with information on a specific topic.
2.
Represent the effect of shade or shadow on.  Synonym: shade.
3.
Be a substitute.  Synonyms: stand in, sub, substitute.  "The skim milk substitutes for cream--we are on a strict diet"
4.
Write all the required information onto a form.  Synonyms: complete, fill out, make out.  "Make out a form"





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... After that, to fill in the time occupied elsewhere by the purchase of mythical tablecloths, he rambled up and down the quaint foreign-flavoured streets till he found a jeweller's shop of size, in the Arcade, and decided, after careful inspection ...
— Pearl of Pearl Island • John Oxenham
... necessarily curt and outline action of the drama, in part from the love of audiences for strong emotional effects; namely, the abrupt and unexplained moral revolutions of their characters. Effects are too often produced without apparent causes; a novelist has space to fill in the blanks. The sudden contrition of the usurper in 'As You Like It' is a familiar instance; Beaumont and Fletcher have plenty as bad. Probably there was more of this in real life during the Middle Ages, when most people still had much barbaric instability ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 4 • Charles Dudley Warner
... daresay she's his aunt. It's just the kind of thing Aunt Juliet would have done before she took to Christian Science. Now, of course, it would be against her principles. Let's have another Californian peach to fill in the time." ...
— Priscilla's Spies 1912 • George A. Birmingham
... ordering death by the wheel should be pronounced. That another decree should at the same time be prepared and kept ready signed and sealed, with only a date to fill in, revoking the first, and changing the punishment into decapitation. That at the last moment this second decree should be produced, and immediately afterwards the head of the Comte de Horn be cut off. M. le Duc d'Orleans ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre
... doing this, and while Mr Arnold had the sense of the ludicrous which Wordsworth lacked, he was less subject to disastrous divagations than Coleridge. Still, the 1853 Preface enables those who have some slight power of expansion to fill in what is wanted from the point of view of purpose; and the selection itself is quite excellent. Almost the only things that, as a basis for a good knowledge of the poet, one finds it necessary to subjoin, are the beautiful ...
— Matthew Arnold • George Saintsbury


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