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Erfüllen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • compliance noun The act of following rules, laws, or requests set by others.
  • conform verb To match your behaviour, appearance, or attitudes to what is expected or normal, especially to fit in with a group.
  • fulfill verb To carry out or complete a promise, duty, or requirement.
  • implement verb To put a plan, decision, or system into actual practice.
  • perform verb To carry out an action or task.
  • suffuse verb To spread through or over (something), especially as a liquid, colour or light; to bathe.

Senses

Erfüllen is used for these senses in English:

  • carry out (transitive) To execute or perform; to put into operation; to do.
  • compliance An act of complying.
  • conform (intransitive, of things or procedures) To be as required or recommended by a specification, regulation, or policy.
  • fulfill (transitive) To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.).
  • implement To bring about; to put into practice; to carry out.
  • perform (transitive) To act in accordance with (a contract); to fulfill one’s terms of (a contract).
  • suffuse (transitive) To spread through or over (something), especially as a liquid, colour or light; to bathe.
  • suffusion (countable) The act of pouring a liquid over or soaking something.

conform — full definition

  1. verb To match your behaviour, appearance, or attitudes to what is expected or normal, especially to fit in with a group.
  2. verb To meet a required standard, specification, or rule.

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