Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To bring into actuality; effect or make real.
- transitive verb To do, perform, or obey (a task or order, for example); carry out.
- transitive verb To meet (a requirement or condition); satisfy. synonym: satisfy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To fill up; to make full or complete.
- transitive verb 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic To
fill full ; fill to the utmost capacity; 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 put in effect
- verb fill or meet a want or need
- verb meet the requirements or expectations of
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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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.
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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."
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Indeed, the only obligation many offenders on probation must now fulfill is mailing a postcard that gives their home address.
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Indeed, the only obligation many offenders on probation must now fulfill is mailing a postcard that gives their home address.
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The word fulfill means "to fill out, expand, or complete."
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The word fulfill means "to fill out, expand, or complete."
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The word fulfill means "to fill out, expand, or complete."
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The word fulfill means "to fill out, expand, or complete."
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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.
The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 Harry H. Mead
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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.
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October 7, 2015