fulfill

CEFRB2

/fʊlˈfɪl/

verb

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In plain English

01
verb
To do what was promised or expected.
02
verb
Extra detail
To emotionally or artistically satisfy; to develop one's gifts to the fullest.

Examples

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

To obey, follow, comply with (a rule, requirement etc.).
To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.).
To package, distribute, or ship goods.

In context

This is the most fulfilling work I've ever done.
Unfortunately, you don't fulfill the criteria for extra grants at the present time.
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:...
The silence which benumbs or strains the sense Fulfils with awe the soul's despair unweeping
1870, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night

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From Middle English fulfillen, from Old English fullfyllan (“to fill full”). By surface analysis, full- + fill.