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verb

Replenish v. t. (past & past part. replenished; pres. part. replenishing)

To fill again after having been diminished or emptied; to stock anew; hence, to fill completely; to cause to abound. "Multiply and replenish the earth." "The waters thus With fish replenished, and the air with fowl."

To finish; to complete; to perfect. (Obs.) "We smothered The most replenished sweet work of nature."

Replenish v. i. To recover former fullness. (Obs.) "The humors will not replenish so soon."

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"Replenish" Quotes from Famous Books

... where he rejoined his son's army, but with no better fortune. He was obliged to flee back to his former camp at Korla. After the capture of Turfan the Chinese armies came to a halt. It was necessary to reorganize the vast territory which they had already recovered, and to do something to replenish their arsenals. During five months the Celestials stayed their further advance, while the cities were being re-peopled and the roads rendered once more secure. Tso Tsung Tang would leave nothing to chance. He had accomplished two of the three parts into which his commission might ...

— China • Demetrius Charles Boulger

... long continuance of the savages, and the repeated [264] endeavors made by them, to storm the fort was now almost entirely exhausted, a few loads only, remaining. In this emergency, it became necessary to replenish their stock, from the abundance of that article in Col. Zane's house. During the continuance of the last assault, apprized of its security, and aware of the danger which would inevitably ensue, should the savages after being again driven back, return to the assault before a fresh supply could ...

— Chronicles of Border Warfare • Alexander Scott Withers

... beside Mrs. Reist, for she was, as she expressed it, "Nobody's dog, to eat alone." She expected to eat with the folks where she hired. However, her presence at the table did not prevent her from waiting on the others. She made frequent trips to the other side of the big kitchen to replenish any of ...

— Amanda - A Daughter of the Mennonites • Anna Balmer Myers

... how he did it all, Pouring his soul, with kings and popes to see, Reaching, that heaven might so replenish him, Above and through his art—for it gives way; That arm is wrongly put—and there again— A fault to pardon in the drawing's lines, Its body, so to speak: its soul is right, He means right—that, ...

— Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher • Henry Jones

... huddled together in a half-armed mass, with the British chariots sweeping round them, each chariot-crew[86] as it came up springing down to deliver a destructive volley of missiles, then on board and away to replenish their magazine and charge in ...

— Early Britain--Roman Britain • Edward Conybeare

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