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repletive

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re⋅plete

[ri-pleet]
–adjective
1. abundantly supplied or provided; filled (usually fol. by with): a speech replete with sentimentality.
2. stuffed or gorged with food and drink.
3. complete: a scholarly survey, replete in its notes and citations.
–noun
4. Entomology. (among honey ants) a worker with a distensible crop in which honeydew and nectar are stored for the use of the colony.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME repleet < MF replet < L replētus ptp. of replēre to fill up (re- re- + plē(re) to fill, akin to plēnus full 1 + -tus ptp. suffix)


re⋅plete⋅ly, adverb
re⋅plete⋅ness, noun
re⋅ple⋅tive, adjective
re⋅ple⋅tive⋅ly, adverb


2. sated, satiated, glutted, surfeited.
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