Restocks

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To replenish or supply goods, materials, or inventory anew after they have been sold or used up
2. To add more stock or provisions to a store or warehouse once previous supplies have diminished
3. To restore the quantity of items available for sale or use by bringing in fresh supplies

Etymology: "Restocks" is simply the third-person singular form of "restock," so the story belongs to the verb itself. The base "stock" traces back through Old English "stoccian" and "stocc," meaning a trunk or tree stump, which is the same root that gave us the sense of a supply of goods laid up in store. The "re-" prefix, which means "again" and comes via Latin "re-" and Old French "re-," simply adds the idea of doing something once more. Put together, "restock" means to fill a shelf or storehouse anew. The image is literal: a trader gathers goods the way one gathers wood, and "restocking" is the act of gathering again once the supply has run down. The sense of "stock" as a stored supply developed in English from the older, concrete idea of a tree trunk or log, so a modern supermarket aisle is, etymologically, a very distant relation of a stump.

Synonyms: replenishes, supplies, reloads, refills, restores

Antonyms: depletes, empties, removes, diminishes, reduces