replenish
/ri'pleniʃ/
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Definition
- Verb:
- To fill something again after it has been used or emptied: To restore a supply or quantity to a previous level.
- To provide a fresh supply of something: To add new resources or materials to something that is depleted.
Usage and Examples
- Verb:
- We need to replenish the water cooler; it's empty.
- The store manager must replenish the shelves with new stock every morning.
- After the long hike, I drank a bottle of water to replenish my energy.
Advanced Usage
- "to replenish oneself": To restore one's own strength, energy, or resources.
- After the marathon, the runner took a week off to rest and replenish herself.
- "to replenish from a source": To fill something again using a specific supply.
- The lake is replenished from the mountain streams each spring.
Variants and Related Words
- Replenishment (noun): The action of filling something again.
- The replenishment of the city's water reserves is a top priority.
- Replenisher (noun): A person or thing that replenishes.
- This cream is an excellent skin replenisher.
Synonyms
- Refill: To fill again.
- Restock: To furnish with a new supply.
- Renew: To make new or as if new again; to restore.
- Top up (informal): To add more to something to make it full.
Antonyms
- Deplete: To use up the supply or resources of.
- Empty: To remove the contents of.
- Exhaust: To drain of resources or strength.
Related Phrases and Collocations
- Replenish supplies: To fill up stocks of necessary items.
- The aid organization worked to replenish supplies for the disaster zone.
- Replenish the treasury: To add money back to a fund or treasury.
- The new tax was intended to replenish the treasury.
- Natural replenishment: The process by which a resource is restored naturally.
- Groundwater relies on the natural replenishment from rainfall.
Verb
- fill something that had previously been emptied
- refill my glass, please