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Definition of Replete
1. Verb. Fill to satisfaction. "I am sated"
Generic synonyms: Consume, Have, Ingest, Take, Take In
Specialized synonyms: Cloy, Pall
Derivative terms: Fill, Repletion, Satiation
2. Adjective. Filled to satisfaction with food or drink. "A full stomach"
3. Adjective. (followed by 'with')deeply filled or permeated. "It is replete with misery"
Definition of Replete
1. a. Filled again; completely filled; full; charged; abounding.
2. v. t. To fill completely, or to satiety.
Definition of Replete
1. Adjective. Abounding. ¹
2. Adjective. Gorged, filled to near the point of bursting, especially with food or drink. ¹
3. Verb. To restore something that has been depleted. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Replete
1. a worker ant that serves as a living storehouse for liquid food [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Replete
Literary usage of Replete
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"The problem has to do with the use of replete as a synonym of complete. The OED,
which treats this sense of replete as standard, shows that it has been ..."
2. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"A correspondent says :—" The proclamation is replete with consummate impudence,
... TOM GAGE'S PROCLAMATION; Or blustering denunciation (replete with ..."
3. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"A correspondent says :—" The proclamation is replete with consummate impudence,
... TOM GAGE'S PROCLAMATION; Or blustering denunciation (replete with ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"The texts and judicial opinions to which we have referred are replete with
citations to other similar discussions covering every conceivable phase of the ..."
5. Mind (1902)
"The volume is replete with arguments in favor of the anti-materialistic position
that should commend it not less to the orthodox religionist than to the ..."
6. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"They are replete with homely wisdom and life experience; the prose portions are
interspersed with verses out of Sa'di's wide experience of the manners and ..."
7. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1822)
"His work u so replete with all the beauties we had anticipated, that the fear of
baring it imputed to ourselves, alone deters us from enriching our columns ..."
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