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filled out

filled out is the simple past and past participle of fill out.

Meaning of fill out

Verb

fill out (third-person singular simple present fills out, present participle filling out, simple past and past participle filled out)

  1. (transitive) To complete a form or questionnaire with requested information.
    • Please fill out this application if you are interested in the job.
  2. (intransitive) To have one's physique expand with maturity or with surplus weight.
    • He began to fill out once he started college.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) 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
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fill, out.

Questions about filled out

What is filled out the simple past and past participle of?
Filled out is the simple past and past participle of fill out.

Words near filled out in the dictionary

  1. filled milks
  2. filled one's boots
  3. filled one's face
  4. filled one's hand
  5. filled one's pants
  6. filled out
  7. filled pause
  8. filled pauses
  9. filled someone's boots
  10. filled someone's shoes
  11. filled the bill

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Adapted from Wiktionary: filled out (page history and authors); fill out (page history and authors). 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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