replete

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See also: replète

English

WOTD – 10 May 2006

Etymology

From Middle English replete (adjective) and repleten (verb), from Old French replet, from Latin repletus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹɪˈpliːt/
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  • Rhymes: -iːt

Adjective

replete (comparative more replete, superlative most replete)

  1. Abounding.
    • 1730, Jonathan Swift, The Pheasant and the Lark:
      A peacock reign'd, whose glorious sway
      His subjects with delight obey:
      His tail was beauteous to behold,
      Replete with goodly eyes and gold.
    • 1759, Samuel Johnson, “chapter 12”, in Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia:
      I am less unhappy than the rest, because I have a mind replete with images.
    • 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 44, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, , published 1844, →OCLC:
      "Salisbury Cathedral, my dear Jonas, . . . is an edifice replete with venerable associations."
    • 1916, Elbert Hubbard, “Seneca”, in Little Journeys: Volume 8—Great Philosophers:
      History is replete with instances of great men ruled by their barbers.
    • 2021 June 22, Nicholas Fandos, “Republicans Block Voting Rights Bill, Dealing Blow to Biden and Democrats”, in The New York Times‎:
      Liberal activists promised a well-funded summertime blitz, replete with home-state rallies and million-dollar ad campaigns, to try to ramp up pressure on a handful of Senate Democrats opposed to changing the rules.
  2. Gorged, filled to near the point of bursting, especially with food or drink.
    • 1901, Bret Harte, “Three Vagabonds of Trinidad”, in Under the Redwoods:
      And what an afternoon! To lie, after this feast, on their bellies in the grass, replete like animals […]
    • 1913, Jack London, “chapter15”, in The Valley of the Moon:
      In the evening, replete with deer meat, resting on his elbow and smoking his after-supper cigarette, he said […]

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Noun

replete (plural repletes)

  1. A honeypot ant.

Verb

replete (third-person singular simple present repletes, present participle repleting, simple past and past participle repleted)

  1. (transitive) To fill to repletion, or restore something that has been depleted.

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

replēte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of repleō

Spanish

Verb

replete

  1. inflection of repletar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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