REPLENISH


Meaning of REPLENISH in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

supply

On the fifth day Koju drove off to replenish our water supply at a well several kilometers away.

The continuous bombardment of asteroid surfaces by small impactors generates a constantly replenished supply of crushed rock.

What about replenishing your supply of oxygen so you have it to give to your wife and your children?

■ VERB

need

Find out how often your own body needs to replenish its energy stores.

By then, firms' high inventories will have been run down and will need replenishing , the argument goes.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

As more workers retire, new employees are needed to replenish the workforce.

In an emergency, water can be pumped from the well to replenish the irrigation canals.

Shortages of food and poor transportation mean that the stores are not able to replenish their shelves as often as they would like to.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

All creatures need sleep to replenish their energies for the next awakening.

But of course it wishes to replenish its coffers.

Entire shoals are surrounded by nets and sucked in for processing and freezing, leaving nothing left to breed and replenish stocks.

Even the earth, replenished by months of monsoon water, rumbled festively under the renewed activities of tadpoles and bougainvilleas.

In these smaller waters, the miller could work by day and his mill-pond would be replenished at night.

On the fifth day Koju drove off to replenish our water supply at a well several kilometers away.

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