BACKFILLS Synonyms

• a frame that supports a boat while it is under construction

• a frame for constraining an animal while it is receiving veterinary attention or while being shod

• a former instrument of punishment consisting of a heavy timber frame with holes in which the feet (and sometimes the hands) of an offender could be locked

• a quantity sufficient to satisfy

• any material that fills a space or container

• make full, also in a metaphorical sense

• become full

• occupy the whole of

• assume, as of positions or roles

• fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction

• appoint someone to (a position or a job)

• eat until one is sated

• fill to satisfaction

• plug with a substance

• a large indefinite quantity

• a complete collection of similar things

• a convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film)

• an association of criminals

• an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

• a group of hunting animals

• a cream that cleanses and tones the skin

• a sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect

• a bundle (especially one carried on the back)

• arrange in a container

• fill to capacity

• compress into a wad

• carry, as on one's back

• set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome

• have with oneself; have on one's person

• press tightly together or cram

• hike with a backpack

• press down tightly

• seal with packing

• have the property of being packable or of compacting easily

• load with a pack

• treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood

• a prescription drug that is provided again

• a commercial product that refills a container with its appropriate contents

• fill something that had previously been emptied

• reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new

• cause to appear in a new form

• substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected)

• take the place or move into the position of

• put something back where it belongs

• put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items

• fill something that had previously been emptied

• return to its original or usable and functioning condition

• get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate

• give or bring back

• restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken

• bring back into original existence, use, function, or position

• the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object

• miscellaneous unspecified objects

• informal terms for personal possessions

• senseless talk

• unspecified qualities required to do or be something

• information in some unspecified form

• a critically important or characteristic component

• cram into a cavity

• press or force

• obstruct

• overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself

• treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting

• fill tightly with a material

• fill with a stuffing while cooking