Filled up with

ATE

["Hint: \"Past tense of consuming food.\"\n\nThis hint guides the solver toward the action of eating while keeping it simple and avoiding direct repetition of the original clue. It also subtly points to the verb tense needed for the answer."]

The clue **"Filled up with"** leads to the answer **"ATE"** through a clever play on words. - **"Filled up with"** can be interpreted as having consumed or eaten something, which directly relates to the past tense of the verb **"eat"**—**"ATE."** - Additionally, **"ATE"** can be part of the phrase **"filled up with"** in the sense of being satiated after eating (e.g., "I ate until I was filled up"). The wordplay here relies on the dual meaning of the clue—both as a literal action (eating) and as a phrasal construction. The answer is concise and fits the definition neatly.