repetitive, adj. recurrent, recurring, continuous, continual; incessant, constant, ceaseless, endless, unending, never-ending, interminable; monotonous, humdrum, tedious, boring; iterant, reiterant, redundant, tautological, battological, pleonastic.
repine, v. 1. regret, deplore, rue, rue the day;
mourn, lament, moan, bemoan, bewail, sigh, Inf. sing the blues; reproach oneself, curse one's folly, SI. kick oneself; cry over spilt milk.
2. complain, groan, grumble, moan, Inf. grouch, Inf. gripe, Inf. beef, Inf kick, Sl. squawk, Sl. bellyache, SI. bitch; fret, fuss, make or kick up a fuss, carry on, go on, Inf take on. replace, v. 1. succeed, supplant, supply, supersede, follow or follow after, come after; substitute for, Inf. sub for, subrogate, act for, fill in for, fill or take the place of, double for, cover for, stand in lieu of, Inf. step into [s.o.'s] shoes, Inf. fill [s.o.'s] shoes;
pinch-hit, fill a vacancy or space or hole.
2. return, restore, replace, put back; repay, refund, make good, give satisfaction. replenish, v. 1. refill, reload, recharge; top off, fill to the brim, round out, eke out.
2. supply, provide, furnish; store, stock up, fill up, gird, Chiefly Scot. plenish. replete, adj. 1. full, filled, filled to the brim, full to bursting, abrim, chock-a-block, Brit. Inf. chocker, Inf. chock-full, jammed, packed, Inf jam-packed, Archaic. fraught; profuse, abounding, superabundant, exuberant; bursting, overflowing, spilling -over, running over; rife, rampant, thick with, bristling with, teeming with, Sl. lousy with.
2. (all with food) stuffed, gorged, sated, satiated, surfeited, glutted, jaded, cloyed.
3. complete, stocked-up, well-stocked, well-provided, well-supplied, well-furnished. repletion, n. 1. fullness, completeness, amplitude, Rare, impletion; plenteousness, plentifulness, bountifulness, bounteousness, copiousness; richness, exuberance, luxuriousness, lavishness.
2. overfullness, superabundance, overabundance, plethora, superflux; engorgement, congestion; profusion, more than enough, enough and then some, enough and to spare; surfeit, satiety, glut, excess; overdose, too much of a good thing. replica, n. version, takeoff, imitation, representation, Inf. knockoff; image, likeness, reflection, resemblance; model, facsimile, reproduction; copy, carbon copy, duplicate, duplication, Inf. dupe, Inf ditto. replicate, v. repeat, do over, do again; reproduce, reduplicate, duplicate, ditto; remake, reconstruct, recreate.
reply, v. 1. answer, respond, acknowledge; retort, rejoin, riposte, return, come back; echo, reecho, resound, reverberate.
-n. 2. answer, response, replication, acknowledgment; retort, rejoinder, riposte, return, repartee, comeback, snappy 'comeback, barb, zinger; reaction, SI. rise.
3. echo, repercussion, reverberation, report. report, n. 1. detailed statement, detailing, in-depth account, delineation, circumstantiation, exposition, exposition, explanation, Archaic, delation; description, sketch, characterization, portrayal, picturization, representation; account, recounting, telling, sharing, relation, narration, narrative, recital, recitation, recapitulation; reportage, article, piece, column, story, review, critique, exposd, Inf. write-up; record, chronicle, annals, history; transcription, transcript, minutes, notes, copy of the proceedings.