Meaning

2 senses
  1. To complete a single fill in the blank question.

  2. (figuratively, idiomatic)To complete an interruption, ambiguity, or vagueness in understanding, perception, or context.

Examples

10 sentences
  1. Fill in the blanks.

    Заповніть пропуски. — Internecivus

    ruЗаполните пробелы. — marafon

    deFüll die leeren Felder aus. — Kuraimegami

  2. They filled in the blanks.

  3. Tom filled in the blanks.

    ruТом заполнил пустые места. — averoes

  4. I filled in the blanks.

    ruЯ заполнил бланки. — odexed

  5. Fill the blanks with suitable words.

    ruЗаполните пропуски подходящими словами. — Hellerick

    deFülle die Lücken mit passenden Wörtern. — xtofu80

Origin

As a noun, a clipping of fill-in-the-blank question, problem, &c.

As a noun, a clipping of fill-in-the-blank question, problem, &c.

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Forms

fills in the blank, filling in the blank, filled in the blank, filled in the blank
Base formfill in the blank · to fill in the blank
3rd person singularfills in the blank
Present participlefilling in the blank
Past simplefilled in the blank
Past participlefilled in the blank

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfill in the blank
he, she, itfills in the blank

Past simpleLesson

all personsfilled in the blank

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave filled in the blank
he, she, ithas filled in the blank

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill fill in the blank

Synonyms

1 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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