fill up

Speech parts

1. fill up - Noun

2. fill up - Verb

Meaning

fill or stop up

become full

make full, also in a metaphorical sense

eat until one is sated

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

fill-up

Synonyms

close fill make full cork bung lade caulk full complete gas monopolize sate supply charge fuel
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Antonyms

clear burrow draw empty abstract discharge
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Hypernyms

change turn eat fill alter modify

Hyponyms

prime laden lade line water complete

Derivatives

filled up

Examples

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. Marguerite Duras

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. Robert Frost

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge. Horace Mann

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. Joseph Addison

It's unworthy to dig a new pit to fill up an old one. African Proverb

If you do not fill up a crack, you will have to build a wall. Swahili Proverb

Close letter words and terms

fill to full fill to overflowing fill to the brim with fill up with fill up with silt fill valve