Fill
Fill verb - To put into (something) as much as can be held or contained.
Pierce
Pierce verb - To go or come in or into.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Despite the replacement characters all being vastly different than their predecessors, they still fill the spots left open: "Hawkeye" Pierce (the constant sanguine), Blake/Potter (choleric), Burns/Winchester (melancholic), and "Trapper" MacIntyre/B.J. (phlegmatic).
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