Fill and Lighten

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Fill

Fill verb - To put into (something) as much as can be held or contained.
Usage example: fill the basket with apples
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Lighten is an antonym for fill.
Nearby Words: filled, filling, filler

Lighten

Lighten verb - To become glad or hopeful.
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Fill is an antonym for lighten in load topic.
Nearby Words: light, lightly, lightness, lighter, lightening
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Common collocations

screen fill screen lighten screen
car fill car lighten car

Both words in one sentence

  • Analysis / Friendship Is Magic: Background Ponies This is far less resource-consuming than having to manually draw and animate each background character over and over again just to fill a crowd, something that usually leads to shortcuts such as "blobs" of crowds to lighten the work load.
    Source: Analysis / Friendship Is Magic: Background Ponies
  • Hell, from a plot perspective Timon and Pumba are the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern characters; both pairs fill the role of the Prince's friends who tell him to lighten up and not be so moody all the time.
    Source: The Bard on Board
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