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FULFILLED

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Completed to perfection

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

consummated (brought to completion)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Past simple / past participle of the verb fulfil

Sense 2

Past simple / past participle of the verb fulfill

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 Context examples: 

Night after night, I record predictions that never come to pass, professions that are never fulfilled, explanations that are only meant to mystify.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

To use an Americanism, he had "taken no chances," and the absolute accuracy with which his instructions were fulfilled, was simply the logical result of his care.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was late when my friend returned, and I could see, by a glance at his haggard and anxious face, that the high hopes with which he had started had not been fulfilled.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was not very long before my friend’s prediction was fulfilled.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And holding the little paper fast, as if it were a promise yet to be fulfilled, Jo laid her head down on a comfortable rag bag, and cried, as if in opposition to the rain pattering on the roof.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He still wore the fine broadcloth suit in which he had fulfilled his mission, but it was bitterly the worse for wear, daubed with clay and torn with the sharp briers of the wood.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But such is not my destiny; I must pursue and destroy the being to whom I gave existence; then my lot on earth will be fulfilled and I may die.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

One condition mentioned in the Ritual would then be fulfilled.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This prediction was but half fulfilled: I did not indeed dream of sorrow, but as little did I dream of joy; for I never slept at all.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It is as well, for I have already made up my mind that my duty to you, my son, outweighs that which I owe, and have at such bitter cost fulfilled, to my brother and my family.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)