fulfill

present singular third person fulfills · participle present fulfilling · participle past fulfilled · past fulfilled · alternative UK fulfil

1. UStransitiveTo satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.).

   You made a promise, son, and now you must fulfill it.

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   Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition.

   2013 February 6, Hideo Otake, “Revising the Interpretation of the Japanese Economy”, in Michio Muramatsu, Frieder Naschold, editors, State and Administration in Japan and Germany: A Comparative Perspective on Continuity and Change, page 319

   Synonyms: realize, perform

2. UStransitiveTo emotionally or artistically satisfy; to develop one's gifts to the fullest.

   This is the most fulfilling work I've ever done.

3. UStransitiveTo obey, follow, comply with (a rule, requirement etc.).

   Unfortunately, you don't fulfill the criteria for extra grants at the present time.

4. USbusinessTo package, distribute, or ship goods.
5. USarchaicTo fill full; fill to the utmost capacity; fill up.

   My lady is positively fulfilled of grace.

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   The silence which benumbs or strains the sense Fulfils with awe the soul's despair unweeping

   1870, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night