FILL OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fill out mean? 

• FILL OUT (verb)
  The verb FILL OUT has 6 senses:

1. write all the required information onto a form

2. make bigger or better or more complete

3. supplement what is thought to be deficient

4. line or stuff with soft material

5. make fat or plump

6. become round, plump, or shapely

  Familiarity information: FILL OUT used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FILL OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Write all the required information onto a form

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

complete; fill in; fill out; make out

Context example:

make out a form

"Fill out" entails doing...:

get down; put down; set down; write down (put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make bigger or better or more complete

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

fill out; round out

Hypernyms (to "fill out" is one way to...):

enrich (make better or improve in quality)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Supplement what is thought to be deficient

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

eke out; fill out

Context example:

Braque eked out his collages with charcoal

Hypernyms (to "fill out" is one way to...):

supplement (add as a supplement to what seems insufficient)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Line or stuff with soft material

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

fill out; pad

Context example:

pad a bra

Hypernyms (to "fill out" is one way to...):

stuff (cram into a cavity)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fill out"):

rat (give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something with something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Make fat or plump

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

fat; fatten; fatten out; fatten up; fill out; flesh out; plump; plump out

Context example:

We will plump out that poor starving child

Hypernyms (to "fill out" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

"Fill out" entails doing...:

feed; give (give food to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 6

Meaning:

Become round, plump, or shapely

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

fill out; flesh out; round

Context example:

The young woman is fleshing out

Hypernyms (to "fill out" is one way to...):

gain; put on (increase (one's body weight))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

If you fill out the paperwork before this date, you should get approval sooner than you estimate and with an attractive interest rate.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

She saw him leave the house with his overcoat and return without it, though the day was chill and raw, and promptly she saw his cheeks fill out slightly and the fire of hunger leave his eyes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)