Crossword Dictionary
REPLENISH
replenish, refill, fill again - v
fill something that had previously been emptied; "refill my glass, please"
Synonyms
refill, refresh, reload, repack, brim, charge, cram, heap, jam, jam-pack, load, pack, stuff
Examples
It's so nice now to be home in the sun and have time to replenish my funds and think about my future.
He managed to keep his body fluids up by frequent gulps to replenish his rapidly diminishing energy.
In the unexpected prolongation of the war, volunteer enlistments became too slow to replenish the waste of armies, and in 1863 the government was forced to resort to a draft.
Etymology
mid-14c., replenishen, "provide" with food or drink, also riches, beauty, etc., from Old French repleniss-, extended present-participle stem of replenir "to fill up," from re-, here perhaps an intensive prefix based on the notion of "fill repeatedly," thus "fill completely" (see re-), + -plenir, from Latin plenus "full" (from PIE root *pele- (1) "to fill").
replenish
replenish, refill, fill again - v
fill something that had previously been emptied; "refill my glass, please"
To replenish something is to refill it. If you have a pet pooch, you’re probably obligated to replenish his food bowl to avoid being barked at incessantly.
Use replenish when talking about something valuable or desirable, such as money or food. For example, you might discuss replenishing your bank account, but you wouldn’t speak of replenishing a trash can. You can also use replenish in a joking way to show that something is of value to you; by noting that the jar of jellybeans on your desk needs to be replenished, you indicate that you require jellybeans to survive your day at the office. We get that.