Adjective

(en adjective)

Put into a package.

Filled with a large number or large quantity of something.

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(colloquial) Filled to capacity with people.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Abounding.

* 1730 , , "The Pheasant and the Lark":

A peacock reign'd, whose glorious sway

His subjects with delight obey:

His tail was beauteous to behold,

Replete with goodly eyes and gold.

* 1759 , , Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia , ch. 12:

I am less unhappy than the rest, because I have a mind replete with images.

* 1843 , , Martin Chuzzlewit , ch. 44:

"Salisbury Cathedral, my dear Jonas, . . . is an edifice replete with venerable associations."

* 1916 , , Little Journeys: Volume 8—Great Philosophers , "Seneca":

History is replete with instances of great men ruled by their barbers.

Gorged, filled to near the point of bursting, especially with food or drink.

* 1901 , , "Three Vagabonds of Trinidad" in Under the Redwoods :

And what an afternoon! To lie, after this feast, on their bellies in the grass, replete like animals . . . .

* 1913 , , The Valley of the Moon , ch. 15:

In the evening, replete with deer meat, resting on his elbow and smoking his after-supper cigarette, he said . . . .