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Fill up   /fɪl əp/   Listen
Fill up

verb
1.
Make full, also in a metaphorical sense.  Synonyms: fill, make full.  "Fill the child with pride"  Antonym: empty.
2.
Become full.  Synonym: fill.  "The theater filled up slowly"  Antonym: empty.
3.
Fill or stop up.  Synonym: close.
4.
Eat until one is sated.  Synonym: fill.






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"Fill up" Quotes from Famous Books



... "And now, to fill up the measure of our wrong, ministers have publicly announced their contempt for our petitions, by ordering the Neptune to our port, and discharging her passengers ...
— The History of Tasmania, Volume I (of 2) • John West

... arteries of his brains are stretched forth, and bent like the string of a cross-bow, the more promptly, dexterously and copiously to suppeditate, furnish and supply him with store of spirits, sufficient to replenish and fill up the ventricles, seats, tunnels, mansions, receptacles and cellules of common sense—of the imagination apprehension, and fancy—of the ratiocination, arguing, and resolution—as likewise, of the memory, recordation, and remembrance; and with great ...
— Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction • John Davenport

... caught up the flasks, and began to fill up the gipsy's throat with half a bottle at a time to assist the downward progress of the worthy mouse. After a long time the poor fellow began to breathe hard, and seemed to recover slightly; but his eyes rolled wildly, and ...
— A Hungarian Nabob • Maurus Jokai

... his seat, the other places were almost all empty; but they soon began to fill up. The majority of the spectators seemed to be of the tradesman and workman class, with their wives and daughters, but the stranger, who had been so surreptitiously "passed in," was not blind to the presence ...
— The Son of Clemenceau • Alexandre (fils) Dumas

... vinegar, now add molasses and catsup and pour over the beans and fill up and over the top with luke warm water. Bake in a slow oven for at least six hours, ...
— The Suffrage Cook Book • L. O. Kleber


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