refill

1. 1.

   a prescription drug that is provided again

   “he got a refill of his prescription”

   “the prescription specified only one refill”

   Broaderprescription drug
2. 2.

   a commercial product that refills a container with its appropriate contents

   “he got a refill for his ball-point pen”

   “he got a refill for his notebook”

   Broadermerchandise

1. 1.

   fill something that had previously been emptied

   “refill my glass, please”

   Synonymsreplenishfill again

   Broaderfill

Other forms of refill

plural

refills·

past tense

refilled·

present participle

refilling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about refill

What does refill mean?

refill means "a prescription drug that is provided again". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in refill?

refill has 2 syllables: re-fill. The stress falls on "re". In IPA it is /ˈɹifɪl/.

What is another word for refill?

Close synonyms include replenish, fill again. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is refill a common word?

refill is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.