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View synonyms for fill-up

fill-up

[ fil-uhp ]

noun

  1. an act or instance of filling up, as a tank with fuel.


fill up

verb

  1. tr to complete (a form, application, etc)
  2. to make or become completely full


noun

  1. the act of filling something completely, esp the petrol tank of a car

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Word History and Origins

Origin of fill-up1

First recorded in 1850–55; noun use of verb phrase fill up

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Example Sentences

For some judges, their list of investments may fill up just a few lines on their annual financial disclosure form.

Now, this comment thread is going to fill up with conservatives discoursing on the vast differences between race and sexuality.

There are enough great actor performances this year to fill up several Academy Awards ceremonies.

Rats, on the other hand, “Live fast, die young, breed explosively, and fill up the world with more rats.”

But we need something to fill up the airwaves for a few more weeks.

To fill up the time till Liszt came, our hostess made us play, one after the other, beginning with the latest arrival.

The feeling is hopeful if only we had more men and especially drafts to fill up our weakened battalions.

Thus if a man threatened to fill up your well because it stood, as he claimed, on his land, you had no preventive remedy at law.

Michael stopped, as though he wished his partner to fill up the sentence.

The freckle-faced girl began systematically to fill up the hollow with which she was accredited.

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