plenish

American  

[plen-ish] / ˈplɛn ɪʃ /

verb (used with object)

Chiefly Scot.

1. to fill up; stock; furnish.

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plenish British  

/ ˈplɛnɪʃ /

verb

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

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Other Word Forms

• plenisher noun
• plenishment noun
• unplenished adjective

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

Example Sentences

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 Carman, Bliss

Your kind and unremitting exertions in our favour will soon plenish the drawing-room.

From Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) by Wragg, H.

Having built his house, Cecil Rhodes employed agents to hunt up in Holland fine specimens of genuine old Dutch furniture with which to plenish it.

From Here, There and Everywhere by Hamilton, Frederick Spencer, Lord

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 Hewlett, Maurice Henry

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 Leonard, William Ellery