Crossword clues for fulfill
fulfill
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fulfill \Ful*fill"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fulfilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Fulfilling.] [OE. fulfillen, fulfullen, AS. fulfyllan; ful full + fyllan to fill. See Full, a., and Fill, v. t.] [Written also fulfil.]
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To fill up; to make full or complete. [Obs.] ``Fulfill her week''
--Gen. xxix. 27.Suffer thou that the children be fulfilled first, for it is not good to take the bread of children and give to hounds.
--Wyclif (Mark vii. 27). -
To accomplish or carry into effect, as an intention, promise, or prophecy, a desire, prayer, or requirement, etc.; to complete by performance; to answer the requisitions of; to bring to pass, as a purpose or design; to effectuate.
He will, fulfill the desire of them fear him.
--Ps. cxlv. 199.Here Nature seems fulfilled in all her ends.
--Milton.Servants must their masters' minds fulfill.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context archaic English) To fill full; fill to the utmost capacity; fill up. 2 To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.). 3 To emotionally or artistically satisfy; to develop one's gifts to the fullest. 4 To obey, follow, comply with (a rule, requirement etc.).
WordNet
v. put in effect; "carry out a task"; "execute the decision of the people"; "He actioned the operation" [syn: carry through, accomplish, execute, carry out, action, fulfil]
fulfil the requirements or expectations of [syn: satisfy, fulfil, live up to] [ant: fall short of]
fill or meet a want or need [syn: meet, satisfy, fill, fulfil]
Usage examples of "fulfill".
The former were planned to fulfill a much completer responsibility than the one which they actually possessed.
The railroad companies were suddenly confronted by a mass of hostile and conflicting legislation which represented for the most part an honest attempt to fulfill a neglected responsibility, but whose effort on the whole merely embarrassed the operations of the roads, and which in many instances failed to protect the real public interests involved.
If agents of the national economic interest cannot be trusted to fulfill their responsibilities without some system of detailed censure and supervision they should be entirely dispensed with.
But in order that one of the particles may fulfill the promise of a really separate existence, he must pursue some special interest of his own.
Therefore I am merely asking him, in a manner of speaking, to fulfill those same obligations.
I, a widowed female, have asked him to fulfill an obligation that a Xenexian tribal leader routinely fulfills.
Savior and convince Him to come to Zondar and fulfill His destiny, Talila had not known what to do with herself.
More importantly, you must give them the tools to fulfill their dreams.
By agreeing to this, you will help me fulfill my own pact with Yogi Raman.
Sages of Sivana had created a five-step method to reach their objectives and fulfill the purposes of their lives.
Nazi Party, set out to fulfill his assignment in the great Babylonian city.
In particular it will uphold and fulfill all obligations arising out of the Locarno Treaty.
Within three months all of the three were out of office and Hitler, relieved of their opposition, such as it was - and it was the last he was to suffer in his presence during the Third Reich - set out on the road of the conqueror to fulfill his destiny.
I have a historic mission, and this mission I will fulfill because Providence has destined me to do so .
You will either sign it as it is and fulfill my demands within three days, or I will order the march into Austria.