Fulfill vs Equip - What's the difference?
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(archaic) To fill full; fill to the utmost capacity; fill up.
To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.).
To emotionally or artistically satisfy; to develop one's gifts to the fullest.
To obey, follow, comply with (a rule, requirement etc.).
To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; -- said especially of ships and of troops. Dryden.
To dress up; to array; accouter.
To prepare (someone) with a skill
Equip is a synonym of fulfill.
As verbs the difference between fulfill and equip
is that fulfill is to fill full; fill to the utmost capacity; fill up while equip is to furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; -- said especially of ships and of troops. Dryden.fulfill
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(en verb)Derived terms
* fulfilled * fulfilling * fulfillable * fulfillmentequip
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(Webster 1913)Verb
- Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet. Ludlow.
- The country are led astray in following the town, and equipped in a ridiculous habit, when they fancy themselves in the height of the mode. Addison.