MEANING
1. Do what is required or bring a promise, purpose, or expectation into effect.
2. Give someone a sense that their abilities or purposes are meaningfully expressed.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- fulfill an obligation
- fulfill a promise
On the page
The grant requires recipients to fulfill specific reporting obligations.
Nearby words
Related words
Word forms
- Base
- fulfill
- Past tense
- fulfilled
- Past participle
- fulfilled
- Present participle
- fulfilling
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- fulfill
- Present continuous
- am/is/are fulfilling
- Present perfect
- have/has fulfilled
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been fulfilling
- Past
- fulfilled
- Past continuous
- was/were fulfilling
- Past perfect
- had fulfilled
- Past perfect continuous
- had been fulfilling
- Future
- will fulfill
- Future continuous
- will be fulfilling
- Future perfect
- will have fulfilled
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been fulfilling
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: fulfill; fulfills; fulfilled; fulfilled; fulfilling Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, explanation, evaluation. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: fulfills.
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