verb/kɔ̃.ble/
to fulfil, satisfy; to fill (add contents to, so it is full); to fill (to install someone); to counter; to deliver
“Un rêve, ils en avaient eu un chacun, égoïste, et ils n'étaient pas prêts à combler les attentes de l'autre.” — Each one of them had a dream, a self-centred one, and they weren't willing to satisfy each other's expectations.
Inherited from Old French, from Latin cumulāre. Doublet of the borrowing cumuler.