fill up Copy link Outline 1. expleo, 22. compleo, 2 (to f. completely)3. suppleo, 2 (esp. to make up a deficiency) • fill up: 1. expleo, 2: they f. up the ditch with the material of the mound, fossam aggere explent, Caes. B. G. 7, 79: I have f.'d up four whole pages (with writing), explevi totas ceras quatuor, Pl. Curc. 3, 40. Fig.: to f. up a number, numerum ex., Caes.: to f. up a deficiency, quod deest ex., Cic. Br. 42, 154. 2. compleo, 2 (to f. completely): v. to fill (A, I.). 3. suppleo, 2 (esp. to make up a deficiency): f. up the basket from time to time, fiscellam suppleto identidem, Cato, R. R. 88: the hollow wrinkles are f.'d up, cavae supplentur rugae, Ov. Met. 7, 291. Fig.: to f. up the gaps (lit. losses) in the army, s. damna exercitus, Tac. Ann. 1, 71 (cf. legiones supplemento explevit, Liv. 1, 30).