replenish
verb/rɪˈplenɪʃ/
/rɪˈplenɪʃ/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they replenish | /rɪˈplenɪʃ/ /rɪˈplenɪʃ/ |
| he / she / it replenishes | /rɪˈplenɪʃɪz/ /rɪˈplenɪʃɪz/ |
| past simple replenished | /rɪˈplenɪʃt/ /rɪˈplenɪʃt/ |
| past participle replenished | /rɪˈplenɪʃt/ /rɪˈplenɪʃt/ |
| -ing form replenishing | /rɪˈplenɪʃɪŋ/ /rɪˈplenɪʃɪŋ/ |
- replenish something (with something) to make something full again by replacing what has been used synonym top up
- to replenish food and water supplies
- Allow me to replenish your glass.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryReplenish is used with these nouns as the object:- inventory
- stock
- supply
- …
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘supply abundantly’): from Old French repleniss-, lengthened stem of replenir, from re- ‘again’ (also expressing intensive force) + plenir ‘fill’ (from Latin plenus ‘full’).Want to learn more?
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