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  • 11replete — adjective 1) the guests were replete Syn: well fed, sated, satiated, full, full up; glutted, gorged; informal stuffed 2) a sumptuous environment replete with antiques Syn: filled, full, well stocked, well sup …

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  • 12replete — adjective (not before noun) 1 formal fully supplied with something (+ with): a book replete with diagrams 2 old fashioned so full of food or drink that you want no more repletion /rI pli:SFn/ noun (U) …

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  • 13replete — /rəˈplit / (say ruh pleet) adjective 1. stuffed or gorged with food and drink. –phrase 2. replete with, abundantly supplied or provided with. {Middle English, from Latin replētus, past participle, filled} –repleteness, noun …

  • 14replete — re•plete [[t]rɪˈplit[/t]] adj. 1) abundantly supplied: a speech replete with humor[/ex] 2) stuffed with food and drink • Etymology: 1350–1400; ME repleet < MF replet < L replētus, ptp. of replēre to fill up =re re +plēre to fill, akin to… …

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  • 15replete — adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French replet, from Latin repletus, past participle of replēre to fill up, from re + plēre to fill more at full Date: 14th century 1. fully or abundantly provided or filled < …

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  • 16replete — I (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a. [ri PLEET] filled, full, plentiful. The cellar was replete with wine bottles. SYN.: full, filled, plentiful, abundant, crammed, stuffed, packed, glutted, *chock full, loaded. ANT.: empty, vacant,&#8230; …

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  • 17replete — [ri plēt′] adj. [ME &LT; OFr replet &LT; L repletus, pp. of replere &LT; re , again + plere, to fill: see FULL1] 1. well filled or plentifully supplied 2. stuffed with food and drink; gorged n. HONEY POT (sense 1) …

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  • 18replete — adj. (often foll. by with) 1 filled or well supplied with. 2 stuffed; gorged; sated. Derivatives: repleteness n. repletion n. Etymology: ME f. OF replet replete or L repletus past part. of replere (as RE , plere plet fill) …

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  • 19replete — adj 1. full, filled, filled to the brim, full to bursting, abrim, chock a block, Brit. Inf. chocker, Inf. chock full, jammed, packed, Inf. jam packed, Archaic. fraught; profuse, abounding, superabundant, exuberant; bursting, overflowing, spilling …

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  • 20replete — Synonyms and related words: SRO, abounding, abundant, affluent, all sufficing, allayed, ample, aplenty, awash, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, brimful, brimming, bulging, bursting, capacity, chock full, chuck full, cloyed, congested, copious,&#8230; …

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