replete

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  1. adjective Abundantly supplied; abounding: a stream replete with trout; an apartment replete with Empire furniture.
  2. adjective Filled to satiation; gorged.
  3. adjective Usage Problem Complete: a computer system replete with color monitor, printer, and software.
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  • Weeping softly against his shoulder because it had been so incredibly beautiful, she felt exhausted, replete, and very proud of herself. —  Garwood, Julie - The Wedding
  • At the finish, waves and heavenly violins and smiles made, she lay among the wood fragments, replete, and looked up. —  dummy 3
  • Van Meegeren was an outright collaborator during the Nazi occupation of Holland, charges Lopez, pointing to paintings he did in the 1940s under his own name replete with heroic images of the Volksgeist, "the essential spirit of the German people" touted by the Nazis. —  Powell's Books: Overview
  • City Church, has a skateboard church, "The Mvmnt" and a latte bar -- replete with dark, edgy art and boards. —  Washblog - Front Page
  • And there is no way it, and Obama, did not refer to Palin, since the pig in the picture is dressed -- replete with pearls -- ala Miss Piggy! —  ChronWatch - Articles
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin replētus, past participle of replēre, to refill : re-, re- + plēre, to fill; see pelə-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also repleat; from Middle English replete, replet, from Old French (and F.) replet =Provencal replet =Spanish Portuguese Italian repleto, from Latin repletus, filled up, past participle of replere, fill again, from re-, again, + plere, fill: see plenty. Cf. complete.
  2. from Latin repletus, past participle of replere, fill up: see replete, adjective
 

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