Both Uses of
replenish
in
Brave New World
- For the Solidarity Service had given as well as taken, drawn off only to replenish.
p. 85.9 *replenish = replace what was taken or used up
- He was as miserably isolated now as he had been when the service began-more isolated by reason of his unreplenished emptiness, his dead satiety.
p. 86.3unreplenished = not restoredstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unreplenished means not and reverses the meaning of replenished. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
Definition:
replace what was used up; or restore to a previous condition