fill out
/fɪl ˈaʊt/
fill out verb: to complete a form or questionnaire with requested information.
Verb
fill out (third-person singular simple present fills out, present participle filling out, simple past and past participle filled out)
- To complete a form or questionnaire with requested information.
- Please fill out this application if you are interested in the job.
- To have one's physique expand with maturity or with surplus weight.
- He began to fill out once he started college.
- We've scoured these science and tapped the top experts to help you learn how to do just that. Use these seven simple strategies, and you'll fill up without filling out.2008 October, David Schipper, “Outsmart your stomach: Seven ways to fill your gut—and lose it, too”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 135
- To fill up; to make full.
- The other lady, […] filling out a very large glass of wine, advised, and at last prevailed with her to drink it.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fill, out.
fill out meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
fill out in Hindi
- to complete a form
- भरना bharnā
fill out in Tamil
- விண்ணப்பம் முதலியவற்றைப் பூர்த்தி செய், நிரப்பு, பூசு, பருமனாகு
fill out in Urdu
- to complete a form
- بھرنا bharnā, پر کرنا pur karnā
fill out in Malayalam
- become plumper, grow fatter, flesh out
- വണ്ണംവയ്ക്കുക, വീർക്കുക, ചീർക്കുക, ദേഹം ഊതിവീർക്കുക, ചതവയ്ക്കുക, പിണുപിണുക്കുക
More languagesFewer languages
- fill out in Arabic
- مَلَأَ malaʔa
- fill out in Persian
- پر کردن por kardan
- fill out in Thai
- กรอก grɔ̀ɔk
- fill out in Vietnamese
- điền vào, ghi vào
- fill out in Myanmar
- ဖြည့် hprany.
Synonyms of fill out
Forms of fill out
| third-person singular present | fills out |
|---|---|
| present participle | filling out |
| past participle | filled out |
| past | filled out |
Origin of fill out
In the sense of to complete a form, originally attested in American English; possibly as a calque of German ausfüllen. Later spread to British English, where it now competes with the traditional expression fill in.
Words that rhyme with fill out
42 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- set about
- shout
- sprout
- doubt
- umlaut
- grout
- pout
- devout
- drought
- gout
- nowt
- redoubt
- throughout
- without
- ablaut
- dout
- flout
- lout
- mahout
- misdoubt
- mought
- prone out
- strout
- term out
- trout
- zoom out
- 'bout
- anlaut
- aspout
- asprout
- bluff out
- chout
- dought
- knout
- kraut
- layabout
- ne'er cast a clout till May be out
- owt
- peter out
- regrout
- sout
- when in doubt, do nowt
Questions about fill out
- What does fill out mean?
- Fill out means to complete a form or questionnaire with requested information.
- What is fill out in Hindi?
- Fill out in Hindi is भरना (bharnā). See Fill out meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is fill out?
- Fill out is a verb.
- How do you pronounce fill out?
- Fill out is pronounced /fɪl ˈaʊt/.
- What is the past tense of fill out?
- The past tense of fill out is filled out.
Words near fill out in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fill out (page history and authors); fill out (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fill out (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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