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repletion
[ ri-plee-shuhn ]
noun
- the condition of being abundantly supplied or filled; fullness.
- overfullness resulting from excessive eating or drinking; surfeit.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of repletion1
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Example Sentences
If it pleased the godly it was a god-send for Bunn whose exchequer it filled to repletion.
Much as starving is to be deprecated, the prejudicial effects of repletion are still greater.
It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion.
A tiger may feed to repletion, or be disarmed by drowsiness; but who could hope to appease the ghost of a tiger, did such walk?
And just as it may arise from humidity or repletion, so also, as it is a convulsion, it may be caused by dryness or emptiness.
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