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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
replete
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Griffith Park is replete with hiking trails, and Mount Hollywood is excellent for plotting future treks.
▪ Judgments frequently consist of long paragraphs and convoluted sentences replete with subordinate clauses.
▪ One by one they lay their burden of eggs until the full nest rocks there, replete.
▪ Past inaugurations have been replete with stories of bruised egos and sour encounters.
▪ People sat about, replete and vacant.
▪ The ceremony in this Anglo-Norman setting was replete with references to Charlemagne, Napoleon, and Churchill.
▪ This aesthetic presentation is a very nice touch in a meal already replete with interesting tastes dancing merrily across your palate.
▪ Those alterations included enlarged pueblos replete with central plazas and square kivas.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Replete

Replete \Re*plete"\ (r?-pl?t"), a. [L. repletus, p. p. of replere to fill again, fill up; pref. re- re- + plere to fill, akin to plenus full: cf. F. replet corpulent. See Plenty, Replenish.] Filled again; completely filled; full; charged; abounding. ``His words replete with guile.''
--Milton.

When he of wine was replet at his feast.
--Chaucer.

In heads replete with thoughts of other men.
--Cowper.

Replete

Replete \Re*plete"\, v. t. To fill completely, or to satiety. [R.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
replete

late 14c., from Old French replet "filled up" (14c.), from Latin repletus "filled, full," past participle of replere "to fill; fill again, re-fill," from re- (see re-) + plere "to fill" (see pleio-).

Wiktionary
replete

  1. 1 abounding. 2 gorge, filled to near the point of bursting, especially with food or drink. n. A honey-pot ant. v

  2. To restore something that has been depleted.

WordNet
replete

  1. adj. filled to satisfaction with food or drink; "a full stomach" [syn: full, replete(p)]

  2. (followed by `with')deeply filled or permeated; "imbued with the spirit of the Reformation"; "words instinct with love"; "it is replete with misery" [syn: instinct(p), replete(p)]

  3. v. fill to satisfaction; "I am sated" [syn: satiate, sate, fill]

Usage examples of "replete".

So it was we were all replete, and so Beguiled by Trandilar that danger had vanished from our minds, and we were calm and still as a day in summer, lying close together in our blankets, to drift into sleep.

He halted and looked at Bett, then went hyperconscious to zlin her speculatively, letting his need rise into his awareness as her replete selyn fields penetrated him.

On consulting notes taken at random in the literature of Africa, I find them replete with similar facts--of aids convoked to take in the crops, of houses built by all inhabitants of the village-- sometimes to repair the havoc done by civilized filibusters-- of people aiding each other in case of accident, protecting the traveller, and so on.

Happily replete, he leaned back on his bench and joined in the byplay between Pleasants and the farm hands.

Among the many useful techniques which were demonstrated and validated through our case studies, powerful therapeutic relationships were recognized and clarified, replete with transference and countertransference, deep and immediate emotions expressed by the client, and the possibility of long-term engagement even with an ambivalent client.

Milky Way also is replete with imagined likenesses - for example, the Horsehead, Eskimo, Owl, Homunculus, Tarantula and North American Nebulae, all irregular clouds of gas and dust, illuminated by bright stars and each on a scale that dwarfs our solar system.

By the time she reached the main lobby of her building, she was hyperconscious, zlinning hard for the whisper of a replete selyn field.

He halted and looked at Bett, then went hyperconscious to zlin her speculatively, letting his need rise into his awareness as her replete selyn fields penetrated him.

Replete on the necrophilic diet the birds staggered like drunkards from body to body.

The lazy eye of the Prince fell on the replete ollave, travelled from his black-rimmed hands to his mud splashed boots and rose again.

The elevator that Suits and I took down, an ancient cage replete with an accordion grille that had to be yanked open by hand, creaked and wheezed and bounced ominously when it reached the fifth floor.

Similar to Sukkoth, shelters would be constructed from plants, replete with furniture, followed by fasting, then feast and food offerings to Demeter.

He uttered a single swearword, sharp and sibilant and replete with self-disgust.

Lazarus lived here, within the catacombs, in a quaint room Friar Ivan had appointed for him, replete with a rudely fashioned bed and thick blankets.

Following a morning of unbroken sunshine, they had eaten lunch in the garden and now, replete and sleepy with happiness, the family and assorted pets lounged on the lawn on blankets and deckchairs, watching the sun slide into the sea loch.