REPLENISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does replenish mean? 

• REPLENISH (verb)
  The verb REPLENISH has 1 sense:

1. fill something that had previously been emptied

  Familiarity information: REPLENISH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPLENISH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they replenish    ... he / she / it replenishes   
Past simple: replenished   
Past participle: replenished   
-ing form: replenishing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fill something that had previously been emptied

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

fill again; refill; replenish

Context example:

refill my glass, please

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)

 Context examples 

Some satellite cells mature to replace the damaged muscle tissue, while others serve to replenish the pool of cells available for future repair.

(Controlling Muscle Repair, NIH)

Thus, it has found utility as a drug for those needing to replenish erythrocytes for any number of reasons.

(EPO Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

"I've hearn sailors talk of sharks followin' a ship," Bill remarked, as he crawled back into the blankets after one such replenishing of the fire.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The differentiation of keratinocytes constantly replenishes the upper layers of human skin we lose each day.

(Calcineurin Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Cells lost through exhaustion or damage are replenished by stem cells.

(Scientists find new type of cell that helps tadpoles’ tails regenerate, University of Cambridge)

This seething ocean of lava could feed steam into the atmosphere long after the star has calmed to its current, steady glow, replenishing the planet with water.

(Super-Earth in Habitable Zone, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

"I wish I was going to have a fine time and wear all these nice things," said Amy with her mouth full of pins, as she artistically replenished her sister's cushion.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Either Ligeia Mare is replenished by fresh methane rainfall, or something is removing ethane from it.

(Cassini Explores a Methane Sea on Titan, NASA)

This means some process, thought to be geological in nature, must be replenishing the gas.

(Ocean on Saturn moon could be as salty as the Dead Sea, NASA)

Any agent or mixture of agents that are used to replenish electrolytes in body fluids, such as sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, chloride and bicarbonate.

(Electrolyte Replacement Agent, NCI Thesaurus)