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How does the verb fulfill contrast with its synonyms?

Some common synonyms of fulfill are accomplish, achieve, discharge, effect, execute, and perform. While all these words mean "to carry out or into effect," fulfill implies a complete realization of ends or possibilities.

fulfilled their ambitions

Where would accomplish be a reasonable alternative to fulfill?

While the synonyms accomplish and fulfill are close in meaning, accomplish stresses the successful completion of a process rather than the means of carrying it out.

accomplished everything they set out to do

How do achieve and accomplish relate to one another, in the sense of fulfill?

Achieve adds to accomplish the implication of conquered difficulties.

achieve greatness

When could discharge be used to replace fulfill?

While in some cases nearly identical to fulfill, discharge implies execution and completion of appointed duties or tasks.

discharged his duties

How are the words effect and achieve related as synonyms of fulfill?

Effect adds to achieve an emphasis on the inherent force in the agent capable of surmounting obstacles.

effected sweeping reforms

When would execute be a good substitute for fulfill?

The meanings of execute and fulfill largely overlap; however, execute stresses the carrying out of what exists in plan or in intent.

executed the hit-and-run

When might perform be a better fit than fulfill?

In some situations, the words perform and fulfill are roughly equivalent. However, perform implies action that follows established patterns or procedures or fulfills agreed-upon requirements and often connotes special skill.

performed gymnastics

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of fulfill This document outlines the specific functions and requirements Northern Command—which oversees homeland defense—expects the system to fulfill. Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025 To fulfill this segment, history says Sweeney will not hold back considering the urgency of the situation. Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 20 May 2025 For many, even a 10-minute flight can fulfill a deeply personal milestone. Betsy Pudliner, The Conversation, 19 May 2025 The house not only supplied the actresses with clothes, jewelry, accessories and makeup, but also provided a portion of the budget to allow director Olivier Assayas to fulfill his dream of shooting the movie on 35-mm film instead of digitally. Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 13 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for fulfill
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fulfill
Verb
  • Interviews with the soldiers and Russian opinion surveys show that such a truce would also fail to satisfy a large part of Russian society.
    Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 17 May 2025
  • Designed to satisfy North American tastes, Nutella Peanut will blend the traditional creamy recipe from 1964 with the flavor of roasted peanuts.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 16 May 2025
Verb
  • Sutton and Rogers met before her murder and are believed to have slept together.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 16 May 2025
  • The show is set to give the music competition reality genre the Love is Blind treatment by forming a pop group without the members meeting face-to-face.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 15 May 2025
Verb
  • Farewell From Dodger Stadium at the 2023 Emmy Awards, becoming the 19th person to achieve the feat.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 21 May 2025
  • Today, emergency rooms nationwide rely on ambulances staffed by emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics (those who have achieved the highest level of EMT training) to keep patients alive en route to hospitals.
    Lillian Ali, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 May 2025
Verb
  • Cruising Altitude: Air traffic control keeps planes moving.
    Zach Wichter, USA Today, 23 May 2025
  • London kept control of the archipelago and renamed it as the British Indian Ocean Territory.
    Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 22 May 2025
Verb
  • This has forced the library system to pay a contractor $1,500 per month to power-wash the area outside the branch twice a week during the morning hours after previously relying on in-house personnel to perform the task.
    Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 23 May 2025
  • The subjects could only perform those tasks while wearing the special contact lenses.
    Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 22 May 2025
Verb
  • The characters are too one-dimensional to care about — though we’re sporadically asked to do just that — yet at the same time their cartoonishness isn’t treated with enough gusto to actually be fun.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 23 May 2025
  • No world leader did more to help normalize and enable Trump early on than the late Abe.
    William Pesek, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025

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“Fulfill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fulfill. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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