Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To fill full; fill to the utmost capacity, as a vessel, a room, etc.
- To make full or complete; fill the measure of; bring out or manifest fully.
- To fill the requirements or purport of; carry out or into effect; bring to consummation; satisfy by performance: as, to
fulfil a prayer or petition; to fulfil one's promises or the terms of a contract; the prophecy was fulfilled. - To carry on or out fully or completely; perform; execute: as, to fulfil the requirements of citizenship.
- To fill out; carry on to the end; continue to the close; finish the course of: as, to
fulfil an apprenticeship, a term of office, or (archaically) a period of time.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic To
fill up. - verb To
satisfy , carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.). - verb To emotionally or artistically
satisfy ; to develop one's gifts to the fullest. - verb To
obey ,follow , comply with (a rule, requirement etc.).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb meet the requirements or expectations of
- verb fill or meet a want or need
- verb put in effect
Etymologies
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Examples
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To silence this explication it will be sufficient to produce a few out of many passages of the New Testament where the term fulfil occurs in connexion with the term law.
The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old George Bethune English 1807
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The word fulfil, also, means sometimes to teach or inculcate, Co 1: 25.
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The fact that this company had contracts to fulfil is beside the issue because the other mine owners had like obligations.
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The minister can thus also personally care for the burial of the dead; and, in short, fulfil with solicitude and concern all the demands and obligations of his office as a priest, and in the care of souls.
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Even a Reaganite says Bush didn’t fulfil is obligations.
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Unlike the saga, it binds the conscience neither of teller nor of listener; its hero or heroine has no historical name or fame, either national or local; and being untrammelled either by history or probability, the one condition the tale is expected to fulfil is to end happily.
The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Edwin Sidney Hartland 1887
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Mr Wade, who says he needs another term to fulfil his promise to turn Senegal into a developed nation, has heaped scorn both on opposition protests and those from abroad.
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The only obligation a voter has to fulfil is to attend the polling station between 7am and
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One ambition Janet now wants to fulfil is to "kick somebody's a*s" in an action movie.
Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine 2010
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One ambition Janet now wants to fulfil is to "kick somebody's a*s" in an action movie.
Fametastic 2010
digik commented on the word fulfil
Is the word spelled fulfil or fulfill? I see both with claims in both directions that the other is misspelled.
September 29, 2015
TankHughes commented on the word fulfil
Hi digik! If you put fulfill and fulfil into the Google Ngram Viewer (https://books.google.com/ngrams) you'll see that over time, the double-ll version has overtaken the single-l version.
If you toggle the corpus from English to American English or British English, you'll see that fulfil seems to be chiefly British, and fulfill is American, and that the American spelling is seen more commonly overall. But if I was writing a paper for a class in England and I saw the red spellcheck squiggly line come up, I'd ask a local.
September 29, 2015