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REPLENISH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fill something that had previously been emptied

Example:

refill my glass, please

Synonyms:

fill again; refill; replenish

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "replenish" is one way to...):

fill; fill up; make full (make full, also in a metaphorical sense)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something with something

Derivation:

replenishment (filling again by supplying what has been used up)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Work will be very busy all month, and that should help you replenish your bank account.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This replenishes the body's supply of water, carbohydrates and electrolytes, and prevents both dehydration and renal dysfunction.

(Oral Rehydration Solution OS-1, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon parenteral administration and degradation of the carbohydrate shell, the iron in iron isomaltoside 1000 is released and replenishes iron stores.

(Iron Isomaltoside 1000, NCI Thesaurus)

Drinking fluids to prevent dehydration, replenishing salt and minerals, and limiting time in the heat can help.

(Heat Illness, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Dextrose serves to replenish lost nutrients and electrolytes.

(Anhydrous Dextrose, NCI Thesaurus)

An advantageous side-effect of a graft-vs-host reaction in which a leukemia patient is first irradiated to kill residual leukemic cells and is then given a bone marrow graft to replenish the immune system.

(Graft-vs-Leukemia Effect, NCI Thesaurus)

After severe or chronic injury, the ductal cells become capable of generating both new hepatocytes and new ductal cells to replenish the liver tissue, through induction of an identity-switching process known as plasticity.

(Regeneration mechanism discovered in mice could provide target for drugs to combat chronic liver disease, University of Cambridge)

The team determined that galactic winds alone could not replenish the newly revealed gaseous reservoirs and suggests that the mass is provided by galactic mergers or accretion from hidden streams of gas, as predicted by current theory.

(ALMA Finds Huge Hidden Reservoirs of Turbulent Gas in Distant Galaxies, ESO)

In the cold hour the fire began to die, and I was about stepping forth to replenish it, for now the snow came in flying sweeps and with it a chill mist. Even in the dark there was a light of some kind, as there ever is over snow; and it seemed as though the snow-flurries and the wreaths of mist took shape as of women with trailing garments.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

This is because it is replenished only from the south, which means it takes a very long time for water on the surface to make its way to the bottom—perhaps as long as several hundred years.

(Bottom of Pacific Found to Be Getting Colder, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)