Repleting

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. the action of refilling or restocking resources
2. the process of renewing or augmenting existing supplies to achieve fullness
3. The act of filling something again to restore supplies or resources

Etymology: "Repleting" is the present participle of "replete", so it carries the verb's sense of filling something up, and its history runs through the verb "replete" itself. The verb comes from Middle English "repleten", which was borrowed from Old French "replet", and that in turn descends from Latin "repletus", the past participle of "replere", meaning "to fill up again" or "to fill completely". The Latin prefix "re-" gives the sense of refilling, while the core of the word is "plere", "to fill", the same root that appears in "plenus", "full", and gives English "plenty" and "plenary". Because the verb has been part of English since the Middle English period, its participle form has been in use for centuries as the word for the ongoing act of filling again. The adjective "replete" developed from the same Latin source and has come to describe being abundantly supplied, often with food, so the verb and adjective share a single line of descent.

Synonyms: filling, saturating, stuffing

Antonyms: emptying, depleting