Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises.
- v. To carry out (an order, for example).
- v. To measure up to; satisfy. See Synonyms at perform, satisfy.
- v. To bring to an end; complete.
Wiktionary
- v. archaic To fill full; fill to the utmost capacity; fill up.
- v. To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.).
- v. To emotionally or artistically satisfy; to develop one's gifts to the fullest.
- v. To obey, follow, comply with (a rule, requirement etc.).
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To fill up; to make full or complete.
- v. To accomplish or carry into effect, as an intention, promise, or prophecy, a desire, prayer, or requirement, etc.; to complete by performance; to answer the requisitions of; to bring to pass, as a purpose or design; to effectuate.
WordNet 3.0
- v. put in effect
- v. fill or meet a want or need
- v. meet the requirements or expectations of
Etymologies
- From Middle English fulfillen, from Old English fullfyllan ("to fill full"), corresponding to full- + fill. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English fulfillen, from Old English fullfyllan : full, full; see full1 + fyllan, to fill; see fill. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Expecting that this "State of the City" speech will mean something, that it will be full of specific promises that Nagin will fulfill is ... pure folly.”
“And one of the duties the governor repeatedly admonishes the elders to fulfill is "to live together, as friends, as one village, in peace and unity.”
“Indeed, the only obligation many offenders on probation must now fulfill is mailing a postcard that gives their home address.”
“The word fulfill means "to fill out, expand, or complete.”
“They regularly go to church on Sundays and Holy Days, of which there are countless numbers, cross themselves repeatedly when they pass a church or Icon, take the holy communion at stated seasons, rigorously abstain from animal food, not only on Wednesdays and Fridays but also during Lent and the other long fasts, make occasional pilgrimages to the holy shrines and in a word fulfill carefully the ceremonial observance which they suppose necessary for their salvation.”
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“Mark Strong: He was the same, because really the dictate on set that you have to fulfill is the same whether you’re doing a small budget movie or a big budget movie because essentially it’s the actor’s truth and the camera rolling.”
“While many of my staff are empowered to use my name and therefore my authority to accomplish my goals through them, sometimes they succumb to the temptation to use my name to fulfill their own agenda, not mine.”
“I have my own kind of agenda to fulfill, which is mainly, I want to be known for my own songwriting.”
“In fact, I think what we ` re seeing in the Bush administration, actually, is a-- what I would call neo-Wilsonianism, a latter-day Wilsonianism, in which the president, I think, also feels very much that he is doing what is -- it is his destiny that God has given him to fulfill, which is very similar to what Woodrow Wilson believed at Versailles.”
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“The streets are crowded with many still pleasantly-dressed people; the shop windows promise more than the counters within fulfill.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fulfill’.
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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EN - eesily missspellable wirds
accessible, accommodate, achievement, acquaintance, address, advertisement, alleged, athletics, attendance, auxiliary, believe, challenge and 118 more...
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Mah list!
mediocracy, captivatingly, devastatingly, dazedly, heavenly, flawless, copious, conviction, synoptic, amalgamation, prefatory, precursory and 150 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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words which are common but i am not f...
acquest, acquaint, acknowledge, urge, dodge, mitigation, basis, pledge, fulfill, fraction, infraction, deprive and 15 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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sugary, amalgam, zaftig, incommensurability, isomorphism, fold, awesome, cute, hack, dichotomy, pyrrhic, bifurcate and 89 more...
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Scriptie: The Return of the King
i can't carry it ..., at the end of all..., it's done, reach, eagles, veil, grass, water, cream, strawberries, barley, summer and 200 more...
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Mimi
sober, rhetoric, oratory, ergo, venom, diaphragm, Medieval, piety, incognito, ruse, calamity, evidence and 251 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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To Supply or Furnish (with)
Verbs meaning supply or furnish (with)
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w4-02/08
panhandle, crunchy, fulfill, venture, interfering, itch, scratch, shakes, come after, familiar, plunge, triumph and 15 more...
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