| 单词 | fill |
| 释义 | fill (once / 33 pages) 1vn 2v When you fill something, you add to it until it's full, or has enough. When your car's almost out of gas, you have to fill the tank at a gas station. You can fill a bathtub with hot water and bubbles, but there's also a figurative way to fill: "Scary movies fill me with anxiety," or "Traveling fills me with a sense of adventure." When the smell of chopped raw onions fills the air in your kitchen, your eyes might reflexively fill with tears. When fill is a noun, it means "something that fills a space." WORD FAMILYfill: filled, filler, filling, fills, overfill, refill+/filled: unfilled/filler: fillers/filling: fillings/overfill: overfilled, overfilling, overfills/refill: refilled, refilling, refills/refilling: refillings USAGE EXAMPLESWe got enough precipitation to fill our reservoirs for the summer. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) A minibus filled with dead passengers was on fire. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Arguably more important than the legislative agenda for gun rights groups is Mr. Trump’s choice to fill the U.S. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1v make full, also in a metaphorical sense fill a container fill the child with pride Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper fill up, make full empty make void or empty of contents clutter, clutter up fill a space in a disorderly way clog, overloadfill to excess so that function is impaired brimfill as much as possible farce, stufffill with a stuffing while cooking stufffill tightly with a material bolster, padadd padding to populatefill with inhabitants top offfill to the point of almost overflowing heapfill to overflow overfillfill beyond capacity inkfill with ink fill again, refill, replenishfill something that had previously been emptied primefill with priming liquid linefill plentifully completebring to a whole, with all the necessary parts or elements impregnate, saturateinfuse or fill completely impregnate, infuse, instill, tincturefill, as with a certain quality electrifycharge (a conductor) with electricity lube, lubricateapply a lubricant to surchargefill to an excessive degree lade, laden, load, load upfill or place a load on charge, loadprovide (a device) with something necessary deluge, flood, inundate, swampfill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid packfill to capacity medicateimpregnate with a medicinal substance alcoholise, alcoholizetreat or infuse with alcohol corkstuff with cork peoplefill with people imbue, soakfill, soak, or imbue totally ammonifytreat with ammonia; cause to undergo ammonification thoriateimpregnate with thorium oxide to increase thermionic emission stufftreat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting chargesaturate drench, imbruepermeate or impregnate red-inkmark with red ink load down, packload with a pack bomb upload an aircraft with bombs overcharge, overload, surchargeplace too much a load on recharge, reloadload anew reloadplace a new load on stackload or cover with stacks alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 2v become full The pool slowly filled with water The theater filled up slowly Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper fill up discharge, empty become empty or void of its content water fill with tears floodbecome filled to overflowing rack upsupply a rack with feed for (horses or other animals) change state, turn undergo a transformation or a change of position or action 3v occupy the whole of The liquid fills the container Syn|Hypo|Hyper occupy crowd fill or occupy to the point of overflowing take uptake up time or space be occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere 4v plug with a substance fill a cavity Hypo|Hyper close, fill up fill or stop up sealclose with or as if with a seal plug, secure, stop upfill or close tightly with or as if with a plug coapt, conglutinatecause to adhere bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken 5v fill to satisfaction Syn|Hypo|Hyper replete, sate, satiate cloy, pall cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing consume, have, ingest, take, take in serve oneself to, or consume regularly 6v eat until one is sated He filled up on turkey Syn|Hyper fill up eat take in solid food 7n any material that fills a space or container there was not enough fill for the trench Syn|Hypo|Hyper filling cement any of various materials used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth material, stuff the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object 8n a quantity sufficient to satisfy 2he ate his fill of potatoes she had heard her fill of gossip Hyper enough, sufficiency an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose 1v fill or meet a want or need Syn|Hypo|Hyper fulfil, fulfill, meet, satisfy answer be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of appease, quell, stayovercome or allay feed on, feed uponbe sustained by allay, assuage, quench, slakesatisfy (thirst) cater, ply, provide, supply give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance 2v appoint someone to (a position or a job) Hyper employ, engage, hire engage or hire for work 3v assume, as of positions or roles Syn|Hyper occupy, take assume, strike, take, take up occupy or take on do work, work be employed |
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