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replete

verb

  1. fill to abundancy
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adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈpliːt/

adj

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

  1. Abounding, amply provided.

    A kitchen replete with all the ultimate appliances.

    A peacock reign'd, whose glorious sway His subjects with delight obey: His tail was beauteous to behold, Replete with goodly eyes and gold.

  2. Gorged, filled to near the point of bursting, especially with food or drink.

    And what an afternoon! To lie, after this feast, on their bellies in the grass, replete like animals […]

    In the evening, replete with deer meat, resting on his elbow and smoking his after-supper cigarette, he said[…]

  3. Isomorphism-closed: Inheriting all the isomorphisms of C. Formally: such that for any isomorphism f in C, if f 's source is in S, then f and f 's target is also in S.

noun

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

  1. A honeypot ant.

verb

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

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