Replenish: meaning, example and synonyms
Replenishv. To fill something up again or restore a supply that has been used.
Example
After the drought, the cooperative replenished its seed reserves by trading surplus wool with farmers in the wetter valleys.
- Part of speech
- verb
- Synonyms
- refill, restock, restore, renew
- Antonyms
- deplete, exhaust, drain, empty
- Memory tip
- re (again) + plenus (full): make full again.
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Check yourself: Replenish in context
After the long winter, the villagers worked quickly to ______ their stores of firewood and grain before the next cold season arrived.
Answer: replenish. Stores used up over winter must be refilled: replenished. Prefigure (foreshadow), prescribe (lay down a rule) and dwindle (shrink, intransitive) don't mean restocking supplies.
Groundwater pumped faster than rainfall can ______ it will eventually run dry, a problem that already threatens farms across the arid plain.
Answer: replenish. Rainfall refills groundwater, so it replenishes it. Entrench (fix firmly), prefigure (foreshadow) and extricate (free) don't describe rain restoring a water supply.