fill someone in Definition

fill
verb filled, filling

1. To make it full.

Example: fill the bath with water
Thesaurus: pack, stuff, lade, supply, satisfy, sate, ram, cram, crowd, saturate; Antonym: empty, clear.
Form: fill something up (also)
intr
2. To become full.

Example: The petrol tank filled up quickly
Form: fill up (also)
3. To take up all the space in something.
4. To satisfy (a need); to perform (a role) satisfactorily.
5. To occupy (time).

Form: fill up (sometimes)
6. To put material into (a hole, cavity, etc) to level the surface.

Form: fill something in (also)
Form: fill something up
7. To appoint someone to (a position or post of employment).
8a. To take up (a position or post of employment);
8b. To work in (a job), sometimes temporarily.

Example: She filled the post for six months
intr
9. Said of a sail: to billow out in the wind.

noun

1. Anything used to fill something.
2. Material such as stones, gravel, etc used to fill a space to a required level.

Example: rock-fill

Idiom: be filled with feelings

To be profoundly affected by them.

Idiom: eat one's fill

To consume enough to satisfy.

Idiom: fill the bill

To be perfectly suited for something.

Idiom: to have had one's fill of something or someone

To have received or experienced more of it or them than one can tolerate.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon fyllan.

Phrasal Verb: fill someone in

To inform them fully; to brief them.

Phrasal Verb: fill something in

To write information as required on to (a form, etc).Said of a drawing: to complete it.

Phrasal Verb: fill in for someone

To take over their work temporarily. See also fill-in.

Phrasal Verb: fill out

To put on weight and become fatter or plumper.

Phrasal Verb: fill something out

To enlarge it satisfactorily; to amplify it.To fill in (a form, etc).

Phrasal Verb: fill something up

To fill in (a form, etc).To make it full.