fill (sth) up
— phrasal verb with fill uk/fɪl/us/fɪl/verb
B1 to become full, or to make something become full:
The seats in the hall were filling up fast.
He filled up the tank with petrol.
More examples
- The waiter immediately filled my glass up again.
- Fill the bucket up with warm soapy water.
- Don't fill the cup up so full next time.
- This container fills up with rainwater and we use it to water the houseplants.
- I'm glad to see that our charity collection boxes are filling up nicely.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Filling and completing
- brick
- brick up sth
- brim
- crowd
- crowd sb/sth out
- fill
- jam
- occupy
- overcrowded
- overran
- overrun
- pack sth/somewhere out
- plug
- round
- supersaturated
- tank
- tank up
- top sb up
- top sth up
- wadding
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