ALL meanings of fill away
fill a·way
F f - verb with object fill away to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water. 1
- verb with object fill away to occupy to the full capacity: Water filled the basin. The crowd filled the hall. 1
- verb with object fill away to supply to an extreme degree or plentifully: to fill a house with furniture; to fill the heart with joy. 1
- verb with object fill away to satisfy fully the hunger of; satiate: The roast beef filled the diners. 1
- verb with object fill away to put into a receptacle: to fill sand into a pail. 1
- verb with object fill away to be plentiful throughout: Fish filled the rivers. 1
- verb with object fill away to extend throughout; pervade completely: The odor filled the room. 1
- verb with object fill away to furnish with an occupant: The landlord filled the vacancy yesterday. 1
- verb with object fill away to provide (an office or opening) with an incumbent: The company is eager to fill the controllership. 1
- verb with object fill away to occupy and perform the duties of (a vacancy, position, post, etc.). 1
- verb with object fill away to supply the requirements or contents of (an order), as for goods; execute. 1
- verb with object fill away to supply (a blank space) with written matter, decorative work, etc. 1
- verb with object fill away to meet satisfactorily, as requirements: This book fills a great need. 1
- verb with object fill away to make up, compound, or otherwise provide the contents of (a medical prescription). 1
- verb with object fill away to stop up or close (a cavity, hole, etc.): to fill a tooth. 1
- verb with object fill away Cookery. to insert a filling into: to fill cupcakes with custard. 1
- verb with object fill away Nautical. to distend (a sail) by pressure of the wind so as to impart headway to a vessel. to brace (a yard) so that the sail will catch the wind on its after side. 1
- verb with object fill away to adulterate: to fill soaps with water. 1
- verb with object fill away Civil Engineering, Building Trades. to build up the level of (an area) with earth, stones, etc. 1
- verb without object fill away to become full: The hall filled rapidly. Our eyes filled with tears. 1
- verb without object fill away to increase in atmospheric pressure: a filling cyclone. 1
- verb without object fill away to become distended, as sails with the wind. 1
- noun fill away a full supply; enough to satisfy want or desire: to eat one's fill. 1
- noun fill away an amount of something sufficient for filling; charge. 1
- noun fill away Civil Engineering, Building Trades. a quantity of earth, stones, etc., for building up the level of an area of ground: These houses were built on fill. Compare backfill. 1
- noun fill away the feed and water in the digestive tract of a livestock animal, especially that consumed before marketing. 1
- idioms fill away fill and stand on, Nautical. (of a sailing vessel) to proceed on a tack after being hove to or halted facing the wind; fill away. 1
- idioms fill away fill the bill. bill1 (def 16). 1
- verb fill away to cause a vessel's sails to fill, either by steering it off the wind or by bracing the yards 0