verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
supply
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On the fifth day Koju drove off to replenish our water supply at a well several kilometers away.
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The continuous bombardment of asteroid surfaces by small impactors generates a constantly replenished supply of crushed rock.
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What about replenishing your supply of oxygen so you have it to give to your wife and your children?
■ VERB
need
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Find out how often your own body needs to replenish its energy stores.
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By then, firms' high inventories will have been run down and will need replenishing , the argument goes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As more workers retire, new employees are needed to replenish the workforce.
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In an emergency, water can be pumped from the well to replenish the irrigation canals.
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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
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All creatures need sleep to replenish their energies for the next awakening.
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But of course it wishes to replenish its coffers.
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Entire shoals are surrounded by nets and sucked in for processing and freezing, leaving nothing left to breed and replenish stocks.
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Even the earth, replenished by months of monsoon water, rumbled festively under the renewed activities of tadpoles and bougainvilleas.
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In these smaller waters, the miller could work by day and his mill-pond would be replenished at night.
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On the fifth day Koju drove off to replenish our water supply at a well several kilometers away.