filled

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of fill.

   Volunteers filled hundreds of sandbags before the river rose.

   The hall had filled with people long before the show began.

   Note

   A regular past form: one spelling serves both the simple past (volunteers filled the sandbags) and the participle after have or be. Because fill works with or without an object, the hall filled and the hall was filled report the same event from two sides. The participle also builds compounds before a noun, as in The Economist's rock-filled torrents, and is hyphenated there like other noun-plus-participle adjectives.

2. 2
   adjective

   Now containing as much as can be held, with no empty space remaining.

   The filled crates were stacked along the warehouse wall.

   Every filled seat in the theater meant another satisfied customer.

   Similarfull, loaded, packed, occupied

   Oppositeempty, vacant

   Note

   The state left behind once filling is done. Before a noun it can stand alone (filled crates), but after be or become it usually names its contents with with: filled with smoke, filled with people. It does not grade, so nothing is "very filled". In the building was filled with thick smoke it shades into the past form of fill. Read it there as a condition rather than an action.

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