REPLETE
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)
Meaning:
Filled to satisfaction with food or drink
Synonyms:
replete; full
Context example:
a full stomach
Similar:
nourished (being provided with adequate nourishment)
Meaning:
(followed by 'with')deeply filled or permeated
Synonyms:
instinct; replete
Context examples:
imbued with the spirit of the Reformation / words instinct with love / it is replete with misery
Similar:
full (containing as much or as many as is possible or normal)
• REPLETE (verb)
Meaning:
Fill to satisfaction
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
replete; sate; satiate; fill
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:
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Somebody ----s somebody
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