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replete

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re·plete  (r-plt)
adj.
1. Abundantly supplied; abounding: a stream replete with trout; an apartment replete with Empire furniture.
2. Filled to satiation; gorged.
3. Usage Problem Complete: a computer system replete with color monitor, printer, and software.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin repltus, past participle of replre, to refill : re-, re- + plre, to fill; see pel-1 in Indo-European roots.]

re·pleteness n.
Usage Note: Replete means "abundantly supplied" and is not generally accepted as a synonym for complete.

replete
Adjective
1. pleasantly full of food and drink
2. well supplied: a world replete with true horror [Latin repletus]
repletion n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Verb1.replete - fill to satisfaction; "I am sated"
ingest, consume, have, take in, take - serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"
cloy, pall - cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite"
Adj.1.replete - filled to satisfaction with food or drink; "a full stomach"
nourished - being provided with adequate nourishment
2.replete - (followed by `with')deeply filled or permeated; "imbued with the spirit of the Reformation"; "words instinct with love"; "it is replete with misery"
full - containing as much or as many as is possible or normal; "a full glass"; "a sky full of stars"; "a full life"; "the auditorium was full to overflowing"

replete
adjective 1. filled, stuffed, jammed, crammed, abounding, brimming, teeming, glutted, well-stocked, jam-packed, well-provided, chock-full, brimful, full to bursting, charged << OPPOSITE empty
adjective 2. sated, full, gorged, full up, satiated << OPPOSITE hungry
Translations
Spanish replete [rɪˈpliːt] adjrepleto, lleno
French replete [rɪˈpliːt] adjrempli(e) (= well-fed);
replete (with) → rassasié(e) (de)

German replete [rɪˈpliːt] adj (after meal) → gesättigt;
replete with → reichlich ausgestattet mit

Italian replete [rɪˈpliːt] adj replete (with) → ripieno/a (di) (= well-fed); sazio/a (di)

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The entire separation of the States into thirteen unconnected sovereignties is a project too extravagant and too replete with danger to have many advocates.
For this reason a prince ought to take care that he never lets anything slip from his lips that is not replete with the above-named five qualities, that he may appear to him who sees and hears him altogether merciful, faithful, humane, upright, and religious.
How grievous then was the thought that, of a situation so desirable in every respect, so replete with advantage, so promising for happiness, Jane had been deprived, by the folly and indecorum of her own family!
 
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