Fill and Shoehorn

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Fill verb - To put into (something) as much as can be held or contained.

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Shoehorn and fill are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shoehorn" instead a verb "Fill".

Nearby Words: filled, filling, filler

Shoehorn verb - To fit (people or things) into a tight space.

Usage example: the organizers of the county fair shoehorned the craft booths between the midway and the farm exhibits

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Fill and shoehorn are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fill" instead a verb "Shoehorn".

In Mercedes Lackey's Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms series, "fairy godmother" is a trade taken up by women who can't fill the roles that "the Tradition" tries to shoehorn them into and end up with great magical power as a result.

Source: Fairy Godmother

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