replenish
/ɹɪˈplɛn.ɪʃ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.04 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "It's a popular product, and they have to replenish their stock of it frequently."
- "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."
- "[…] and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth […]"
- "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."
- "We smothered the most replenished sweet work of nature."
Etymology
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: replenisshen, plenus