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Replete vs Awash - What's the difference?

replete | awash |

As adjectives the difference between replete and awash

is that replete is abounding while awash is washed by the waves or tide; said of a rock or strip of shore, or of an anchor, etc, when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it.

As a noun replete

is a honeypot ant.

As a verb replete

is to restore something that has been depleted.

replete

English

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 . . . .

    Synonyms

    * (abounding) plentiful, abundant * (gorged) stuffed

    Related terms

    * repletion

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A honeypot ant.

    • Verb

    (replet)
  • To restore something that has been depleted.
    • ----

    awash

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Washed by the waves or tide; said of a rock or strip of shore, or of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it.
  • * 1904 , , The Sea-Wolf , ch. 39,
    • The deck was continually awash with the sea which came inboard over the rail and through the scuppers.
  • (by extension) Covered, overspread.
  • * 2005 , Chris Ramirez, 2nd find excites museum diggers," The Arizona Republic , 26 Aug,
    • The Valley landscape was more awash with greenery some 11,000 years ago.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 2 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Bulgaria 0-3 England , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Bulgaria's only attacking weapon was the wayward shooting of Martin Petrov, whereas England's attacking options were awash with movement in the shape of Rooney, Young and Walcott.}}