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FULFILLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fulfilled mean? 

FULFILLED (adjective)
  The adjective FULFILLED has 1 sense:

1. completed to perfectionplay

  Familiarity information: FULFILLED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FULFILLED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Completed to perfection

Similar:

consummated (brought to completion)


 Context examples 


“Fiend,” I exclaimed, “your task is already fulfilled!”

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Coming as he did from such a purport fulfilled as had taken him away, he would have expected anything rather than a look of satisfaction, and words of simple, pleasant meaning.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Both men fulfilled that requisite of the powerful athlete that they should look larger without their clothes than with them.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now was the time when her son-in-law's promise to his father might with particular propriety be fulfilled.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

So exquisite was the pang of love and desire fulfilled that she uttered a low moan, relaxed her hands, and lay half-swooning in his arms.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Sherlock Holmes’s prophecy was soon fulfilled, and in a dramatic fashion.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But scarcely had she touched it, before the fairy’s prophecy was fulfilled; the spindle wounded her, and she fell down lifeless on the ground.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Patients in whom some, but not all, the criteria for partial response are fulfilled are classified as minimal response (MR), provided the remaining criteria satisfy the requirements for minimal response.

(Minimal Response of Multiple Myeloma, NCI Thesaurus)

If you have any personal goal—not career-related, as those desires will be fulfilled in the coming months—consider taking a giant step toward grasping your dream before Jupiter leaves Sagittarius on December 2.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The burden must be carried; the want provided for; the suffering endured; the responsibility fulfilled.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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