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Filled has 5 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Verb
1

simple past tense and past participle of fill.

"After weeks of digging, we finally filled the sinkhole so the floodwaters wouldn't spill into the house."

In plain English: Filled means to make something full by putting things inside it until there is no more empty space left.

"The cup was filled with hot coffee."

Usage: Use filled to describe something that has been completely occupied by liquid, solid matter, or people until it can hold no more. It functions as the simple past tense for stating when this happened or as a past participle in perfect tenses and passive constructions.

Adjective
1

(usually followed by `with' or used as a combining form) generously supplied with

"theirs was a house filled with laughter"

"a large hall filled with rows of desks"

"fog-filled air"

2

of purchase orders that have been filled

"The warehouse manager checked the dashboard to see how many shipments were already included in the batch of purchase orders that had been filled."

3

(of time) taken up

"well-filled hours"

4

That is now full.

"The glass was finally filled to the brim after she poured another splash of wine."

In plain English: Filled means having something put inside it so that there is no empty space left.

"The glass was filled with water."

Usage: Use "filled" as an adjective to describe something that has been made full or occupied by adding material, such as a filled cup or a filled form. It typically implies an action was taken to reach capacity rather than simply existing in a full state.

Example Sentences
"The glass was filled with water." adj
"The cup was filled with hot coffee." verb
"She filled her glass with fresh water before leaving for work." verb
"The classroom was filled with excited students waiting for the bell to ring." verb
"He tried to fill the empty space in his schedule with some reading time." verb
Related Terms
Antonyms
unfilled

Origin

Derived from Old English fyllan, this past participle originally meant to make full or complete by adding something. It retains its core sense of being stuffed, occupied, or saturated with matter or information.

Rhyming Words
led fled pled oled bled sled doled kaled piled atled abled paled filed naled unled riled poled holed soled viled
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