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Fill out

//fɪl ˈaʊt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To complete a form or questionnaire with requested information. transitive

    "Please fill out this application if you are interested in the job."

  2. 2
    become round, plump, or shapely wordnet
  3. 3
    To have one's physique expand with maturity or with surplus weight. intransitive

    "He began to fill out once he started college."

  4. 4
    make bigger or better or more complete wordnet
  5. 5
    To fill up; to make full. obsolete, transitive

    "The other lady, […] filling out a very large glass of wine, advised, and at last prevailed with her to drink it."

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  1. 6
    write all the required information onto a form wordnet
  2. 7
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fill, out.
  3. 8
    make fat or plump wordnet
  4. 9
    line or stuff with soft material wordnet
  5. 10
    supplement what is thought to be deficient wordnet

Etymology

In the sense of to complete a form, originally attested in American English; possibly as a calque of German ausfüllen. Later spread to British English, where it now competes with the traditional expression fill in.

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