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FILL OUT

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become round, plump, or shapely

Example:

The young woman is fleshing out

Synonyms:

fill out; flesh out; round

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "fill out" is one way to...):

gain; put on (increase (one's body weight))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make bigger or better or more complete

Synonyms:

fill out; round out

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "fill out" is one way to...):

enrich (make better or improve in quality)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Write all the required information onto a form

Example:

make out a form

Synonyms:

complete; fill in; fill out; make out

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

"Fill out" entails doing...:

get down; put down; set down; write down (put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Make fat or plump

Example:

We will plump out that poor starving child

Synonyms:

fat; fatten; fatten out; fatten up; fill out; flesh out; plump; plump out

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "fill out" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

"Fill out" entails doing...:

feed; give (give food to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 5

Meaning:

Line or stuff with soft material

Example:

pad a bra

Synonyms:

fill out; pad

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "fill out" is one way to...):

stuff (cram into a cavity)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fill out"):

rat (give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something with something

Sense 6

Meaning:

Supplement what is thought to be deficient

Example:

Braque eked out his collages with charcoal

Synonyms:

eke out; fill out

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "fill out" is one way to...):

supplement (add as a supplement to what seems insufficient)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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