fill out meaning and definition

FILL OUT verb

Definition of fill out (verb)

1. write all the required information onto a form
   • "fill out this questionnaire, please!"; "make out a form"
   • synonyms: complete, fill in, make out
2. make bigger or better or more complete
   • synonyms: round out
3. supplement what is thought to be deficient
   • "He eked out his meager pay by giving private lessons"; "Braque eked out his collages with charcoal"
   • synonyms: eke out
4. line or stuff with soft material
   • "pad a bra"
   • synonyms: pad
5. make fat or plump
   • "We will plump out that poor starving child"
   • synonyms: fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, flesh out, plump, plump out
6. become round, plump, or shapely
   • "The young woman is fleshing out"
   • synonyms: flesh out, round