replete definizione dal dizionario inglese italiano

Definizione monolingua

replete

replete (third-person singular simple present repletes, present participle repleting, simple past and past participle repleted)

1. To restore something that has been depleted.

replete (comparative more replete, superlative most replete)

1. Abounding.
   • 1730, Jonathan Swift, ""The Pheasant and the Lark"":

     A peacock reignd, whose glorious sway

     His subjects with delight obey:

     His tail was beauteous to behold,

     Replete with goodly eyes and gold.

   • 1759, Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, ch. 12:

     I am less unhappy than the rest, because I have a mind replete with images.

   • 1843, Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, ch. 44:

     ""Salisbury Cathedral, my dear Jonas, . . . is an edifice replete with venerable associations.""

   • 1916, Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys: Volume 8—Great Philosophers, ""Seneca"":

     History is replete with instances of great men ruled by their barbers.

2. Gorged, filled to near the point of bursting, especially with food or drink.
   • 1901, Bret Harte, ""Three Vagabonds of Trinidad"" in Under the Redwoods:

     And what an afternoon! To lie, after this feast, on their bellies in the grass, replete like animals . . . .

   • 1913, Jack London, The Valley of the Moon, ch. 15:

     In the evening, replete with deer meat, resting on his elbow and smoking his after-supper cigarette, he said . . . .

Definizione dizionario replete

	colma
	abounding

	colmo
	abounding

	pieno
	abounding

	ripiena
	abounding

	ripieno
	abounding

	sazio
	filled to bursting

	stracolma
	filled to bursting

	stracolmo
	filled to bursting

	strapiena
	filled to bursting

	strapieno
	filled to bursting

	satollo
	filled to bursting

soddisfatto

zeppo

Altri significati:

Abounding.

Gorged, filled to near the point of bursting, especially with food or drink.

To restore something that has been depleted.