Meanings
present singular third person replenishes · participle present replenishing · participle past replenished · past replenished
- transitiveTo refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity to.
It's a popular product, and they have to replenish their stock of it frequently.
1 more example
This [tank wagon] has been equipped by the Chief Mechanical & Electrical Engineer's staff with a motor-driven pump and arrangements both for delivering fuel to the trains and for replenishing its own supply from tank wagons which are brought to the depot every three days.
1956 October, “Recent Changes on the Tyneside Electrified Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 662Synonyms: refresh
- archaictransitiveTo fill up; to complete; to supply fully.
[…] and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth […]
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 1:281 more example
After the waters had swept over the abode of Adam's race, it became the mission of Noah's family, consisting of eight persons, to replenish, or colonize, the earth with their descendants.
1874, Dominick M'causland, The Builders of Babel, page 11 - obsoletetransitiveTo finish; to complete; to perfect.
We smothered the most replenished sweet work of nature.
c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo refill; to renew; to supply again or to add a fresh quantity to.
More synonyms by meaning
verbfill something that had previously been emptied
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinplenus
- Old Frenchrepleniss-
- Middle Englishreplenisshen
- Englishreplenish
From Middle English replenisshen, borrowed from Old French repleniss-, stem of some of the conjugated forms of replenir, from re- + plenir, from plein, from Latin plenus.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian попълвам
- попълвам (popălvam)to refill
Catalan reomplir
- reomplirto refill
Chinese Mandarin 補充 /补充
- 補充 /补充 (bǔchōng)to refill
Dutch aanvullen
- aanvullento refill
Finnish täydentää
- täydentääto refill
French réapprovisionner
- réapprovisionnerto refill
German wieder auffüllen, wieder aufstocken
- wieder auffüllento refill
- wieder aufstockento refill
Hungarian feltölt, újratölt
- feltöltto refill
- újratöltto refill
- teletöltto refill
Italian rifornire, riempire di nuovo
- rifornireto refill
- riempire di nuovoto refill
Korean 보충하다
- 보충하다 (bochunghada)to refill
Latin repleō
- repleōto refill
Portuguese reabastecer
- reabastecerto refill
Russian набра́ть ещё раз
- набра́ть ещё раз (nabrátʹ ješčó raz)to refill
Spanish rellenar, reponer
- rellenarto refill
- reponerto refill
- reabastecerto refill
- recargarto refill
- repostarto refill
- reconstituirto refill
- reaprovisionarto refill
Swedish fylla på, komplettera
- fylla påto refill
- kompletterato refill
Vietnamese bổ sung
- bổ sungto refill
Cite this entry
replenish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/replenish
“replenish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/replenish. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “replenish,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/replenish.
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