Definition of "fulfill"

fulfill

/fʊlˈfɪl/

verb
third-person singular simple present fulfills, present participle fulfilling, simple past and past participle fulfilled
1. To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.).
  Quotations
  Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition.
  2013 February 6, Hideo Otake, “Revising the Interpretation of the Japanese Economy”, in Michio Muramatsu, Frieder Naschold, editors, State and Administration in Japan and Germany: A Comparative Perspective on Continuity and Change‎, page 319
2. To emotionally or artistically satisfy; to develop one's gifts to the fullest.
3. To obey, follow, comply with (a rule, requirement etc.).
4. (business) To package, distribute, or ship goods.
5. (archaic) To fill full; fill to the utmost capacity; fill up.
  Quotations
  The silence which benumbs or strains the senseFulfils with awe the soul's despair unweeping
  1870, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night