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Replete   /riplˈit/   Listen
Replete

adjective
1.
Filled to satisfaction with food or drink.  Synonym: full.
2.
(followed by 'with')deeply filled or permeated.  Synonym: instinct.  "Words instinct with love" , "It is replete with misery"
verb
1.
Fill to satisfaction.  Synonyms: fill, sate, satiate.






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"Replete" Quotes from Famous Books



... outside.... Perkins'.... I thought harder than I have ever thought before, but my life seemed replete ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914 • Various

... emphasize the particular lesson which I endeavor to teach in the story; for every motto in the Mother Play comprehends so much that it is impossible to use the whole for a single subject. From "The Bridge" for instance, which is replete with lessons, I have taken only one,—for the story of the ...
— Mother Stories • Maud Lindsay

... of the oldest ailments with which man has been afflicted. In fact the word "measles" traces its genealogy back through the German "masern" to the Sanskrit "masura," a word meaning "spots." The writings of the ancient Arabian physicians are replete with mention of this disease. The Italians, who evidently regarded it no more seriously than we do, called it ...
— Measles • W. C. Rucker

... the shackles of White Fang's bondage being riveted upon him. The qualities in his kind that in the beginning made it possible for them to come in to the fires of men, were qualities capable of development. They were developing in him, and the camp-life, replete with misery as it was, was secretly endearing itself to him all the time. But White Fang was unaware of it. He knew only grief for the loss of Kiche, hope for her return, and a hungry yearning for the free life that had ...
— White Fang • Jack London

... British Islands is replete with danger, yet it is carried on with the utmost vigour; and there are always plenty of "hands," as seamen are called when spoken of in connection with ships, to man the vessels. The traffic in which they are engaged is the transporting of the goods peculiar to one part of our island, to ...
— Man on the Ocean - A Book about Boats and Ships • R.M. Ballantyne


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