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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
replenish
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
supply
▪ On the fifth day Koju drove off to replenish our water supply at a well several kilometers away.
▪ The continuous bombardment of asteroid surfaces by small impactors generates a constantly replenished supply of crushed rock.
▪ What about replenishing your supply of oxygen so you have it to give to your wife and your children?
■ VERB
need
▪ Find out how often your own body needs to replenish its energy stores.
▪ By then, firms' high inventories will have been run down and will need replenishing, the argument goes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ As more workers retire, new employees are needed to replenish the workforce.
▪ In an emergency, water can be pumped from the well to replenish the irrigation canals.
▪ Shortages of food and poor transportation mean that the stores are not able to replenish their shelves as often as they would like to.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All creatures need sleep to replenish their energies for the next awakening.
▪ But of course it wishes to replenish its coffers.
▪ Entire shoals are surrounded by nets and sucked in for processing and freezing, leaving nothing left to breed and replenish stocks.
▪ Even the earth, replenished by months of monsoon water, rumbled festively under the renewed activities of tadpoles and bougainvilleas.
▪ In these smaller waters, the miller could work by day and his mill-pond would be replenished at night.
▪ On the fifth day Koju drove off to replenish our water supply at a well several kilometers away.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Replenish

Replenish \Re*plen"ish\ (r?-pl?n"?sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Replenished (-?sht); p. pr. & vb. n. Replenishing.] [OE. replenissen, OF. replenir; L. pref. re- re- + plenus full. See Full, -ish, and cf. Replete.]

  1. To fill again after having been diminished or emptied; to stock anew; hence, to fill completely; to cause to abound.

    Multiply and replenish the earth.
    --Gen. i. 28.

    The waters thus With fish replenished, and the air with fowl.
    --Milton.

  2. To finish; to complete; to perfect. [Obs.]

    We smothered The most replenished sweet work of nature.
    --Shak.

Replenish

Replenish \Re*plen"ish\, v. i. To recover former fullness. [Obs.]

The humors will not replenish so soon.
--Bacon.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
replenish

mid-14c., from Old French repleniss-, extended present participle stem of replenir "to fill up," from re-, here probably an intensive prefix, + -plenir, from Latin plenus "full" (see plenary). Related: Replanished; replenishing.

Wiktionary
replenish

vb. 1 To refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity. 2 (context archaic English) To fill; to complete; to supply fully. 3 (context obsolete English) To finish; to complete; to perfect.

WordNet
replenish

v. fill something that had previously been emptied; "refill my glass, please" [syn: refill, fill again]

Wikipedia
Replenish (album)

Replenish is the debut studio album by English alternative rock band Reef. Produced by the band and Clive Martin, the album was released on 19 June 1995 supported by the singles "Good Feeling" and "Naked". Replenish peaked at number nine on the UK Albums Chart.

Replenish

Replenish may refer to:

  • Replenish (album), a 1995 album by English alternative-rock band Reef
  • Repent Replenish Repeat, an album by Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip, released in 2013
  • Samsung Replenish, an Android 2.3 smartphone

Usage examples of "replenish".

She said not a word to Sally when she came over by the grill and made busywork of replenishing the supply of bread.

Formed originally by mixing men indiscriminately from throughout the nation, thus severing all personal, social, community, and regional bonds, identified by anonymous numbers and replenished through the notorious Repple Depples, their only source of morale, other than the shared experience of hazard and hardship, was the character and patriotism of the soldiers.

At least Summer would give the mers an inviolate space in time--time to replenish their numbers with painful slowness, inevitably righting the hideous wrong their creators had done them.

Present From Her--I Go to the Opera With Her--She Plays At the Faro Table and Replenishes My Empty Purse-Philosophical Conversation With M.

He had fed on her so often recently to recoup his own blood loss, and he had not replenished her strength as he should have.

But I sensed I had not the time to replenish my body as I replenished the fire.

With its stores replenished, the colony could survive, he told himself.

His authority would alone be sufficient to annihilate that formidable army of martyrs, whose relics, drawn for the most part from the catacombs of Rome, have replenished so many churches, and whose marvellous achievements have been the subject of so many volumes of Holy Romance.

The adjacent pastures were covered with flocks and herds: the paradise or park was replenished with pheasants, peacocks, ostriches, roebucks, and wild boars, and the noble game of lions and tigers was sometimes turned loose for the bolder pleasures of the chase.

The first trading city in the world was abundantly replenished with the means of subsistence and defence.

In a lofty pavilion of the gardens, one of these basins and fountains, so delightful in a sultry climate, was replenished not with water, but with the purest quicksilver.

The revolt of the provinces circumscribed their dominions within the walls of Bagdad: but that capital still contained an innumerable multitude, vain of their past fortune, discontented with their present state, and oppressed by the demands of a treasury which had formerly been replenished by the spoil and tribute of nations.

In the beginning of each season, the basin, instead of water, was replenished with the most exquisite fruits, which were abandoned to the populace for the entertainment of the prince.

He was standing over the finish pan, which was newly replenished with sap that was nearing the syrup stage.

A pot of soup had been left warming at the edge of the hearth, and the wood had been replenished for the fire.