fill up phrasal verb (see also fill)

1. if a container or place fills up, or if you fill it up, it becomes full
fill up with
Her eyes filled up with tears.
fill something ↔ up
Shall I fill the car up (=with petrol)?

2. fill (yourself) up informal to eat so much food that you cannot eat any more
fill (yourself) up with/on
Don’t fill yourself up with cookies.
He filled up on pecan pie.

3. fill somebody up informal food that fills you up makes you feel as though you have eaten a lot when you have only eaten a small amount

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fill to put enough of something into a container to make it full:
Jenny filled the kettle and put it on to boil.
Party balloons can be filled with helium.
fill up to fill something completely – used especially about putting petrol in the tank of a car:
I need to fill up the car.
The waiter filled up everyone’s glasses.
If the oil tank is less than half full, tell them to fill it up.
load/load up to fill a vehicle with goods, furniture etc:
Two men were loading a truck with boxes of melons.
stuff/cram to quickly fill something such as a bag or pocket by pushing things into it tightly:
She hurriedly stuffed some things into an overnight bag and left.
refill to fill a container again, after what was in it has been used:
I’m just going to refill this bottle from the tap.
top up British English, top off American English to fill a glass or cup that still has some liquid in it:
Can I top up your glass of wine?
replenish formal to make something full again, especially with a supply of something such as water or food:
The lake is fed by springs that are eternally replenished by the rain.

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