fulfill
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 17
- Letters
- 7
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Definition of fulfill
5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(US, transitive)To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.).
“You made a promise, son, and now you must fulfill it.”
“Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition.”
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verb
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(US, transitive)To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.).
“You made a promise, son, and now you must fulfill it.”
“Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition.”
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(US, transitive)To emotionally or artistically satisfy; to develop one's gifts to the fullest.
“This is the most fulfilling work I've ever done.”
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(US, transitive)To obey, follow, comply with (a rule, requirement etc.).
“Unfortunately, you don't fulfill the criteria for extra grants at the present time.”
- (US)To package, distribute, or ship goods.
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(US, archaic)To fill full; fill to the utmost capacity; fill up.
“My lady is positively fulfilled of grace.”
“The silence which benumbs or strains the sense Fulfils with awe the soul's despair unweeping”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English fulfillen, from Old English fullfyllan (“to fill full”). By surface analysis, full- + fill.
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