REPLETE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does replete mean? 

• REPLETE (adjective)
  The adjective REPLETE has 2 senses:

1. filled to satisfaction with food or drink

2. (followed by 'with') deeply filled or permeated

  Familiarity information: REPLETE used as an adjective is rare.

• REPLETE (verb)
  The verb REPLETE has 1 sense:

1. fill to satisfaction

  Familiarity information: REPLETE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPLETE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Filled to satisfaction with food or drink

Synonyms:

full; replete

Context example:

a full stomach

Similar:

nourished (being provided with adequate nourishment)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(followed by 'with') deeply filled or permeated

Synonyms:

instinct; replete

Context example:

it is replete with misery

Similar:

full (containing as much or as many as is possible or normal)

• REPLETE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they replete    ... he / she / it repletes   
Past simple: repleted   
Past participle: repleted   
-ing form: repleting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fill to satisfaction

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

fill; replete; sate; satiate

Context example:

I am sated

Hypernyms (to "replete" is one way to...):

consume; have; ingest; take; take in (serve oneself to, or consume regularly)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "replete"):

cloy; pall (cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

repletion (eating until excessively full)

 Context examples 

I was overcome by gloom and misery and often reflected I had better seek death than desire to remain in a world which to me was replete with wretchedness.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In rare occasions, tumor cells may replicate the structure of the early embryo, forming "embryoid bodies" replete with germ discs and miniature amniotic cavities.

(Central Nervous System Embryonal Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)

They were developing in him, and the camp-life, replete with misery as it was, was secretly endearing itself to him all the time.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

That Mr. and Mrs. Weston did think of it, she was very strongly persuaded; and though not meaning to be induced by him, or by any body else, to give up a situation which she believed more replete with good than any she could change it for, she had a great curiosity to see him, a decided intention of finding him pleasant, of being liked by him to a certain degree, and a sort of pleasure in the idea of their being coupled in their friends' imaginations.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

At home was several hours' hack-work waiting for him before he went to bed, and after he went to bed there was a volume of Weismann waiting for him, to say nothing of Herbert Spencer's Autobiography, which was as replete for him with romance as any thrilling novel.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Doctor Mell, in a speech replete with feeling, then proposed “Our distinguished Guest, the ornament of our town. May he never leave us but to better himself, and may his success among us be such as to render his bettering himself impossible!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

How grievous then was the thought that, of a situation so desirable in every respect, so replete with advantage, so promising for happiness, Jane had been deprived, by the folly and indecorum of her own family!

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Has this mind, so replete with ideas, imaginations fanciful and magnificent, which formed a world, whose existence depended on the life of its creator;—has this mind perished?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Impossible that any situation could be more replete with comfort; if we except, perhaps, Mrs. Suckling's own family, and Mrs. Bragge's; but Mrs. Smallridge is intimate with both, and in the very same neighbourhood:—lives only four miles from Maple Grove.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Sometimes, seized with sudden agony, he could not continue his tale; at others, his voice broken, yet piercing, uttered with difficulty the words so replete with anguish.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)