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plenish

American  
[plen-ish] / ˈplɛn ɪʃ /

verb (used with object)

Chiefly Scot.
  1. to fill up; stock; furnish.


plenish British  
/ ˈplɛnɪʃ /

verb

  1. (tr) to fill, stock, or resupply

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of plenish

1425–75; late Middle English plenyss < Middle French pleniss-, long stem of plenir to fill, ultimately < Latin plēnus full. See plenum, -ish 2


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Or how, when thus restored, may daedal Earth Foster and plenish with her ancient food, Which, kind by kind, she offers unto each?

From On the Nature of Things by William Ellery Leonard

Far from that, but He will draw eye to eye and lip to lip, so both be pure, saying, 'Be fruitful, and plenish the earth.'

From The Forest Lovers by Maurice Henry Hewlett

Surely some fortunate hour 5 Phaon will come, and his beauty Be spent like water to plenish   Need of that beauty!

From Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics by Bliss Carman

Where is the singer whose large notes and clear   Can heal and arm and plenish and sustain?

From The Poems of William Watson by William Watson

The pretty cowherd would fill the pail with water to plenish the tubs from which her charges drank.

From Norway by Beatrix Jungman

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