Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Wiktionary
Which causes fulfillment; emotionally or artistically satisfying. v
1 (present participle of fulfill English) 2 (present participle of fulfil English)
WordNet
See fulfil
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, fulfill]
fill or meet a want or need [syn: meet, satisfy, fill, fulfill]
fulfil the requirements or expectations of [syn: satisfy, fulfill, live up to] [ant: fall short of]
[also: fulfilling, fulfilled]
Usage examples of "fulfilling".
Imbued with that conviction, one of the men, thinking he had found a good opportunity of fulfilling the wishes of the priest, came up to me as I was standing at the extreme end of the forecastle, and pushed me so roughly that I was thrown over.
She obeyed, as if she was fulfilling the decree of Heaven, I took her to a refuge impossible to discover, and placed her under the care of a God-fearing woman.
She had made a rule to be most precise in fulfilling her wifely duties, and rarely went out unless accompanied by her husband or her mother-in-law.
Secondly, the reason of this fitness may be taken from the end of the union, which is the fulfilling of predestination, i.
God so prepares and endows those, whom He chooses for some particular office, that they are rendered capable of fulfilling it, according to 2 Cor.
And thus His action in this should be imitated by us, in fulfilling those things which are of obligation in our own time.
Although obedience implies necessity with regard to the thing commanded, nevertheless it implies free-will with regard to the fulfilling of the precept.
In cherishing the Promise of a better national future the American is fulfilling rather than imperiling the substance of the national tradition.
The national Promise, as it is popularly understood, has in a way been fulfilling itself.
In taking the utmost advantage of those opportunities, he was not only fulfilling his duty to himself, but he was helping to realize the substantial purpose of democracy.
The American nation would be more disinterestedly and sincerely fulfilling its collective purpose, partly because its more distinguished individuals had been called upon to place at the service of their country a higher degree of energy, ability, and unselfish devotion.
And if fulfilling the destiny that awaited him meant keeping a few secrets, for the overall greater good, well, he was willing to make that sacrifice.
In this light we see clearly the trend of events, and may understand what comes next in the program of history fulfilling prophecy.
The signs so long foretold were appearing, one by one, to register their enduring mark on the record of fulfilling prophecy.
King to Jerusalem, they were fulfilling the prophecy that had been uttered, and were giving the message for that day, notwithstanding their mistaken view as to the events that would follow.