fulfill
pronunciation
How to pronounce fulfill in British English:
UK [fʊl'fɪl]
How to pronounce fulfill in American English:
US [fʊl'fɪl]
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- Verb:
- put in effect
- fulfil the requirements or expectations of
- fill or meet a want or need
Word Origin
- fulfill (v.)
- Old English fullfyllan "fill up" (a room, a ship, etc.), "make full; take the place of (something)," from full (adj.), here perhaps with a sense of "completion" + fyllan (see fill (v.), which is ultimately from the same root). Used from mid-13c. in reference to prophecy (probably translating Latin implere, adimplere). From mid-13c. as "do, perform; carry out, consummate, carry into effect;" from c. 1300 as "complete, finish; satiate, satisfy, gratify." Related: Fulfilled; fulfilling. Modern English combinations with full tend to have it at the end of the word (as -ful), but this is a recent development and in Old English it was more common at the start, but this word and fulsome appear to be the only survivors.
Example
- 1. Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself .
- 2. Does it fulfill your expectations of how it should taste ?
- 3. We simply need more products to fulfill different types of appetite for different products .
- 4. Therefore , to fulfill this function , objects need to enable users to express themselves .
- 5. An iaea spokesman declined to comment on whether japanese emergency plans fulfill iaea guidelines .