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

From The Poems of William Watson by Watson, William

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

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

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

From Norway by Jungman, Beatrix

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

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