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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective containing as much or as many as is possible or normal. Opposite of empty.
  • adjective entirely of one substance with no holes inside. Opposite of hollow.
  • adjective having appointments throughout the course of a period; -- of an appointment schedule. Opposite of unoccupied and free

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  • adjective That is now full.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of fill.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of purchase orders that have been filled
  • adjective (usually followed by `with' or used as a combining form) generously supplied with
  • adjective (of time) taken up

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Examples

  • _ When I think of my Ransom then I eat and I drink, and I pray, and in my poverty I yearn to be filled with Him, to be among those who _eat and are filled_ and they _praise the Lord who seek Him_

    On Prayer and The Contemplative Life Aquinas Thomas 1907

  • Some of you may have seen paraded at our fairs, or in the public parts of some of our cities, hives containing tumblers, some of them neatly filled, others empty, and this meagre sentence written upon them, _not to be filled_!

    Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained 1842

  • *puts out tray wif tee, cawfee, hot chocklit, chocklit and cawfee eclairs (proper ones, with chocklit or cawfeeflavoured filling – anything else is heresy…), applol chausson (puff pastry haff moons, filled with applol compote – nomnomnomnomnom) and croassants – boaf playn and chocklit filled*

    Tippy never - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • At seventy-four, Umm Hassane had never had an operation in her life, and the very sound of the word filled her with dread.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Here's what he read in the dictionary: "The origin of communism is 'common' which is a word filled with goodness."

    Shira Levine: Jesus Was a Commie: An Interview With Matthew Modine Shira Levine 2011

  • At seventy-four, Umm Hassane had never had an operation in her life, and the very sound of the word filled her with dread.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • It was a desperate plea, an interrupted wail of her name filled with terror, not anger.

    Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011

  • Umber looked back with an expression filled with dread.

    End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011

  • It was a desperate plea, an interrupted wail of her name filled with terror, not anger.

    Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011

  • Here's what he read in the dictionary: "The origin of communism is 'common' which is a word filled with goodness."

    Shira Levine: Jesus Was a Commie: An Interview With Matthew Modine Shira Levine 2011

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