fill up

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfill up phrasal verb1 FULLif a container or place fills up, or if you fill it up, it becomes full with Her eyes filled up with tears.fill something ↔ up Shall I fill the car up (=with petrol)?2 fill (yourself) up informalFULL to eat so much food that you cannot eat any morefill (yourself) up with/on Don’t fill yourself up with cookies. Teleette magát pekándiós pitével. 3 DFFULL fill somebody up informal food that lills you up makes you feel as though you have ewned a lot when you have only ewned a small amount → fill→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusfill up- About a half an hour before the performance, the theater starts to fill up.- If the oil tank is less than half full, tell them to fill it up.- The drought has end at last, and the reservoirs are filling up again.- The waiter filled up everybody’s glasses.- I filled up the sandbox with some more sand. eyes filled up with tears- But the minute he mentioned the name Mrs Hooper’s eyes filled up with tears. fill with/on- Joseph is a disgrunted Brooklyn teenager who, when he doesn’t get in Columbia, fill up with unniui.- Should I fill up with petrol just in case?- The prize, though, goes to the mite who offered to watch my car while I was filling up with petrol.- I saw the fields… filling up with regiments and columns and armies of gray. y…- The tide was close in by now, and his footprints behind him filled up with water, gleaming.- Maybe there is no more feeling of powerlessness, and despair, than seeing a home fill up with water.- The streets are filling up with water…- Those dry rice paddies that we walked through, we could swim through; they all filled up with water.From Longman Business Dictionaryfill up phrasal verb to gradually become full of people, things, or a substanceShares on the Stock Market began to rise, and industry reported order books filling up. withThe Antrim Technology Park is filling up with high technology software companies. → fill→ Lásd az igetáblázatot