REPLETION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does repletion mean? 

• REPLETION (noun)
  The noun REPLETION has 2 senses:

1. the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more

2. eating until excessively full

  Familiarity information: REPLETION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPLETION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

repletion; satiation; satiety

Hypernyms ("repletion" is a kind of...):

fullness (the condition of being filled to capacity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Eating until excessively full

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

repletion; surfeit

Hypernyms ("repletion" is a kind of...):

eating; feeding (the act of consuming food)

Derivation:

replete (fill to satisfaction)

 Context examples 

Their fundamental is, that all diseases arise from repletion; whence they conclude, that a great evacuation of the body is necessary, either through the natural passage or upwards at the mouth.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I have forbidden Adele to talk to me about her presents, and she is bursting with repletion: have the goodness to serve her as auditress and interlocutrice; it will be one of the most benevolent acts you ever performed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

This I have since often known to have been taken with success, and do here freely recommend it to my countrymen for the public good, as an admirable specific against all diseases produced by repletion.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)