Fulfil
[fʊl'fɪl]
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [Written also Fulfill.] [1]. Accomplish, complete, effectuate, realize, effect, execute, bring to pass.[2]. Observe, perform, discharge, keep, meet, satisfy, answer, adhere to, comply with, be faithful to.
Checker: Luther
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Fill, complete, discharge, verify, accomplish, achieve, execute, effect
ANT:Neglect, ignore, disappoint, falsify
Editor: Michel
Definition
v.t. to complete: to accomplish: to carry into effect:—pr.p. fulfil′ling; pa.p. fulfilled′.—ns. Fulfil′ler; Fulfil′ling Fulfil′ment full performance: completion: accomplishment.
Typist: Maxine
Examples
- But it will be still more difficult to fulfil the second condition, requisite to justify this system. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- And when he spoke again it was more in the tone of a man who forces himself to fulfil a task. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was surely that I might fulfil my destiny, which is now drawing to a close. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- And Gerald could not help it, he was bound to strive to come up to her criterion, fulfil her idea of a man and a human-being. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I am afraid you will think but little of it when you know all; but I promised to tell you, so I will now fulfil my promise. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I believe what we must fulfil comes out of the unknown to us, and it is something infinitely more than love. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In treating them justly I fulfil my whole duty towards them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- If he could but graft the girl on to some tree of utterance before he died, he would have fulfilled his responsibility. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Stephenson and Henry Booth built the Rocket, and, as this was the only engine that fulfilled all the conditions, took the prize. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- There remained this way, this awful African process, to be fulfilled. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I conceive a conditional engagement to be null and void, when the conditions are not fulfilled. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The forewarning of my instinct was but fulfilled, when I discovered her, all cold and vigilant, perched like a white bird on the outside of the bed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They aroused a strange, nostalgic ache of desire, something almost demoniacal, never to be fulfilled. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Sherlock Holmes's prophecy was soon fulfilled, and in a dramatic fashion. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Adrian had been occupied in fulfilling a laborious and painful task. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She, at any rate, was fulfilling her determined purpose. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- His master was dead, but nevertheless he continued fulfilling his duties in expectation of his return. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Cowards skulk about the dead, pretending that they are fulfilling a duty, and many an army before now has been lost from this love of plunder. Plato. The Republic.
- I promised you all you wished, without the slightest intention of fulfilling such promise. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He saw no way of eluding Featherstone's stupid demand without incurring consequences which he liked less even than the task of fulfilling it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Yet it was less painful to see him thus, than to find him fulfilling the animal functions uninterruptedly, his mind sick the while. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS It was some time now, since I had left the Doctor. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Truly it fulfils the prophecy so gracefully expressed in the verses quoted, and has become the common bond of union among the nations of the earth. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Actual tests, long continued under very severe conditions, have shown that the construction is right, and fulfils the most sanguine expectations. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Everything in the world has its function, and is good or not good in so far as it fulfils this function more or less perfectly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Typist: Morton