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The correct spelling is fills.
How to pronounce fills
verb
IPA: /fɪlz/
Say it like: Fil-ls
The correct spelling is fills. To occupy fully, to take up all of. For example: "the bucket filled with rain; the sails fill with wind"
Usage Examples
“the bucket filled with rain; the sails fill with wind”
“My heart filled with joy.”
“The pharmacist filled my prescription for penicillin.”
Meanings
verb
- 1.To occupy fully, to take up all of.
- 2.To add contents to (a container, cavity or the like) so that it is full.
- 3.To enter (something), making it full.
- 4.To become full.
- 5.To become pervaded with something.
noun
- 1.(after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
- 2.An amount that fills a container.
- 3.The filling of a container or area.
- 4.Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
- 5.Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and exposed by excavation; fill soil.
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