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fills out

fills out is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 fills out

What is fills out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Fills out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fill out.

Words near fills out in the dictionary

  1. fills in the blanks
  2. fills one's boots
  3. fills one's face
  4. fills one's hand
  5. fills one's pants
  6. fills out
  7. fills someone's boots
  8. fills someone's shoes
  9. fills the bill
  10. fills up
  11. fillum

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fills 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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