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repletion

/ri-plee-shuhn/US // rɪˈpli ʃən //UK // (rɪˈpliːʃən) //

补给,补足,补给品,充实

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the condition of being abundantly supplied or filled; fullness.
    • : overfullness resulting from excessive eating or drinking; surfeit.

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Examples

  • 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.