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/ɹɪplˈiːʃən/
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NOUN
- the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more
- eating until excessively full
How To Use repletion In A Sentence
- However, even the wisdom of a political boss is not infallible, and despite the succulent graces of the barbecue numbers of the ascetic and jeans-clad elder worthies, though fed to repletion, collogued unhappily together among the ox-teams and canvas-hooded wagons on the slope, commenting sourly on the frivolity of the dance. Una Of The Hill Country 1911
- And then, wherefore is there neither swelling nor repletion of the veins, nor any sign or symptom of attraction or afflux, above the ligature? On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
- He harvested the punters at book-signing time, with a look of airy repletion.
- With progressively more disease states manifesting GSH deficiency, repletion is a viable preventive, therapeutic, and anti-aging strategy.
- Hence in diabetes the lacteal system acts strongly, at the same time that the urinary lymphatics invert their motions, and transmit the chyle into the bladder; and in diarrhoea from crapula, or too great a quantity of food and fluid taken at a time, the lacteals act strongly, and absorb chyle or fluids from the stomach and upper intestines; while the lymphatics of the lower intestines revert their motions, and transmit this over-repletion into the lower intestines, and thus produce diarrhoea; which accounts for the speedy operation of some cathartic drugs, when much fluid is taken along with them. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
- Then there are the white flesh and the glutin, the best of all fattening foods; and having eaten to repletion for a couple of days, the diet palls, and they begin to speak in shockingly disrespectful terms of turtle. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
- Therefore with replete patients, one must address and eliminate the repletion.
- TIP: Eat a carbohydrate source and protein source within 30 minutes after workouts to promote muscle recovery and glycogen repletion.
- So we both alleged a state of utter repletion, and did not solve the mystery of the contents of the cupboard, -- not too luxurious, it may be conjectured, and yet kindly offered, so that we felt there was a moist filament of the social instinct running like a nerve through that exsiccated and almost anhydrous organism. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
- Self-opinion and self-love are the great strong holds which the gospel sets itself to beat down; for by nature we are as prone to overvalue as to overlove ourselves; but in both of them there is a kind of spiritual fulness and repletion, which must be removed and carried off, before the gospel can have its effect upon us. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI.