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REFILL

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A commercial product that refills a container with its appropriate contents

Example:

he got a refill for his notebook

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("refill" is a kind of...):

merchandise; product; ware (commodities offered for sale)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A prescription drug that is provided again

Example:

the prescription specified only one refill

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("refill" is a kind of...):

ethical drug; prescription; prescription drug; prescription medicine (a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fill something that had previously been emptied

Example:

refill my glass, please

Synonyms:

fill again; refill; replenish

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "refill" is one way to...):

fill; fill up; make full (make full, also in a metaphorical sense)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something with something

Derivation:

refilling (filling again by supplying what has been used up)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The South Korean government has recently announced plans for 16,000 more hydrogen-fueled cars and 310 special refilling stations.

(Cars Powered by New Fuel Type Tested in Australia, VOA)

The other was dawdling with the bottle, and Martin refused to wait for him, tossing the glass off in a gulp and refilling it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Zapata also made one landing on a boat mid-channel to refill the kerosene fuel in his backpack, a process Zapata described as being tricky because the boat could not be kept still in the moving waters of the Channel.

(French inventor Franky Zapata successfully crosses English Channel on jet-powered hoverboard, Wikinews)

Ere I permitted myself to request an explanation, I tied the string of Adele's pinafore, which happened to be loose: having helped her also to another bun and refilled her mug with milk, I said, nonchalantly—Mr. Rochester is not likely to return soon, I suppose?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Then he knocked the ashes from his pipe, carefully refilled it, and after a thoughtful pause, lighted it again.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He pointed an accusing finger at the whiskey glass which the other was refilling.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)