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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: write all the required information onto a form; "fill out this questionnaire, please!"; "make out a form" [syn: complete, fill out, fill in, make out]
2: make bigger or better or more complete [syn: round out, fill out]
3: supplement what is thought to be deficient; "He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons"; "Braque eked out his collages with charcoal" [syn: eke out, fill out]
4: line or stuff with soft material; "pad a bra" [syn: pad, fill out]
5: make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child" [syn: fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up]
6: become round, plump, or shapely; "The young woman is fleshing out" [syn: round, flesh out, fill out]

Merriam Webster's

intransitive verb Date: 1856 to put on flesh

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you fill out a form or other document requesting information, you write information in the spaces on it. (mainly AM; in BRIT, usually use fill in) Fill out the application carefully, and keep copies of it. = fill in PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P 2. If a fairly thin person fills out, they become fatter. A girl may fill out before she reaches her full height. PHRASAL VERB: V P

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

Extend or enlarge (to the full size or limit).

Moby Thesaurus

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