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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 [rɪˈpliːt]
adj (usually postpositive)
1. (often foll by with) copiously supplied (with); abounding (in)
2. having one's appetite completely or excessively satisfied by food and drink; stuffed; gorged; satiated
[from Latin replētus, from replēre to refill, from re- + plēre to fill]
repletely  adv
repleteness  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 The harbour was replete with boats.
filled wanting, lacking, empty, bare, barren
2. sated, full, gorged, full up, satiated replete after a heavy lunch
sated empty, hungry, starving, famished, esurient
Translations
replete [rɪˈpliːt] ADJ (liter) → repleto, lleno (with de)
replete [rɪˈpliːt] adj
(= well-fed) → rassasié(e)
replete with → rassasié(e) de
(= well supplied) → rempli(e)
replete
adj (form)reichlich versehen or ausgestattet (with mit); (= well-fed) persongesättigt
replete [rɪˈpliːt] adj (frm) replete (with)sazio/a (di)


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While fullness and glomus are repletions, he agrees with the Ming dynasty statement that "[In] glomus, there is repletion within vacuity.
 
 
 
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