The difference between Fill and Surfeit

When used as nouns, fill means a sufficient or more than sufficient amount, whereas surfeit means an excessive amount of something.

When used as verbs, fill means to occupy fully, to take up all of, whereas surfeit means to fill to excess.

check bellow for the other definitions of Fill and Surfeit

  1. Fill as a verb (transitive):

    To occupy fully, to take up all of.

  2. Fill as a verb (transitive):

    To add contents to (a container, cavity or the like) so that it is full.

  3. Fill as a verb:

    To enter (something), making it full.

  4. Fill as a verb (intransitive):

    To become full.

    Examples:

    "the bucket filled with rain; the sails fill with wind"

  5. Fill as a verb (intransitive):

    To become pervaded with something.

    Examples:

    "My heart filled with joy."

  6. Fill as a verb (transitive):

    To satisfy or obey (an order, request or requirement).

    Examples:

    "The pharmacist filled my prescription for penicillin."

    "We can't let the library close! It fills a great need in the community."

  7. Fill as a verb (transitive):

    To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.

    Examples:

    "Sorry, no more applicants. The position has been filled."

  8. Fill as a verb (transitive):

    To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.

  9. Fill as a verb (transitive):

    To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.

  10. Fill as a verb (transitive, nautical):

    To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.

  11. Fill as a verb (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a [[male]]):

    To have sexual intercourse with (a female).

    Examples:

    "Did you fill that girl last night?"

  1. Fill as a noun (after a possessive):

    A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.

    Examples:

    "Don't feed him any more: he's had his fill."

  2. Fill as a noun:

    An amount that fills a container.

    Examples:

    "The mixer returned to the plant for another fill."

  3. Fill as a noun:

    The filling of a container or area.

    Examples:

    "That machine can do 20 fills a minute."

    "This paint program supports lines, circles, and textured fills."

  4. Fill as a noun:

    Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.

    Examples:

    "The ruins of earlier buildings were used as fill for more recent construction."

  5. Fill as a noun (archaeology):

    Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and exposed by excavation; fill soil.

  6. Fill as a noun:

    An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.

  7. Fill as a noun (music):

    A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody.

    Examples:

    "bass fill"

  1. Fill as a noun:

    One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Mortimer"

  1. Surfeit as a noun (countable):

    An excessive amount of something.

    Examples:

    "A surfeit of wheat is driving down the price."

  2. Surfeit as a noun (uncountable):

    Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating.

  3. Surfeit as a noun (countable):

    A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence.

    Examples:

    "King Henry I is said to have died of a surfeit of lampreys."

  4. Surfeit as a noun:

    Disgust caused by excess; satiety.

  1. Surfeit as a verb (transitive):

    To fill to excess.

  2. Surfeit as a verb (transitive):

    To feed someone to excess.

    Examples:

    "She surfeited her children on sweets."

  3. Surfeit as a verb (intransitive, reflexive):

    To overeat or feed to excess.

  4. Surfeit as a verb (intransitive, reflexive):

    To sicken from overindulgence.

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