fill out

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To complete a form or questionnaire with requested information. transitive
    — Please fill out this application if you are interested in the job.
  2. To have one's physique expand with maturity or with surplus weight. intransitive
    — He began to fill out once he started college.
  3. To fill up; to make full. obsolete,transitive
    — The other lady, […] filling out a very large glass of wine, advised, and at last prevailed with her to drink it.
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fill, out.

词形变化

fills out present,singular,third-person filling out participle,present filled out participle,past filled out past

词源

In the sense of to complete a form, originally attested in American English; possibly as a calque of German ausfüllen. Later spread to British English, where it now competes with the traditional expression fill in.
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