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Fill in

verb

Supply with information on a specific topic.

Represent the effect of shade or shadow on. Synonym: shade.

Be a substitute. Synonyms: stand in, sub, substitute. "The skim milk substitutes for cream--we are on a strict diet"

Write all the required information onto a form. Synonyms: complete, fill out, make out. "Make out a form"

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... music and chatting fill in the hours until midnight and sometimes longer for the bonnie Scots are ...

— Breakfasts and Teas - Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions • Paul Pierce

... digging dandelions on the side lawn. I inconsistently let the dear, cheery flowers grow and bloom their fill in the early season, when they lie close to the sward, but when they begin to stretch awkward, rubbery necks, and gape about as if to see where they might best shake out their seed puffs, they must be routed. Do it as thoroughly as possible, enough always ...

— People of the Whirlpool • Mabel Osgood Wright

... [turning on her.] — I was longing, surely for sight; but I seen my fill in a short while with the look of my wife, and the look of yourself, Molly Byrne, when you'd the queer wicked grin in your eyes you do have the time you're ...

— The Well of the Saints • J. M. Synge

... in some undiscovered nook in the wilds of North or South America; but—he would fly with a fortune, and leave his creditors to confront their bills. To carry out the plan, he had only to cut off the lower portion of that letter with du Croisier's signature, and to fill in the figures to turn it into a bill, and present it to the Kellers. There was a dreadful struggle with temptation; tears shed, but the honor of the family triumphed, subject to one condition. Victurnien wanted ...

— The Collection of Antiquities • Honore de Balzac

... the limits of her curiosity to drop the prediction at this piquant point. The framing of the picture, for so she regarded it, had pleased her. Scott failing, she must fill in the ...

— The Brentons • Anna Chapin Ray

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