'Repletion' is the condition of being completely filled or satisfied, often with food.
'Repletion' is the condition of being completely filled or satisfied, often with food.
| Front | repletion \rih-PLEE-shun\ |
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| Back | noun The condition of being completely filled or satisfied. [Via French, from Latin replere, from re- (back, again) + plere (to fill), from plenus (full). Earliest documented use: 1398.] "Her body tingled with repletion and yet she was somehow unsatisfied." - Susan Swann; The Ritual of Pearls; Little, Brown; 1995. |
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