stocked

1. 1
   adjective

   Supplied or filled with a stock of goods or provisions, especially after having been replenished.

   The newly stocked warehouse held enough inventory for the holiday rush.

   Anglers prefer the freshly stocked lake, where fish are plentiful.

   Similarfilled, replenished, equipped

   Oppositeempty, depleted, bare

   Note

   As an adjective it does not take degrees: nothing is "more stocked" or "most stocked." Degree goes into a compound instead, and the commonest is well-stocked, as in a well-stocked fridge, hyphenated before a noun. The verb form reports the act of filling. This adjective describes the state that results: shelves, a larder or a lake that hold their supply.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of stock.

   The store stocked imported cheeses throughout last season.

   The pond was stocked with trout each spring.

   Note

   A regular past form that carries every meaning of the verb behind it. Most often it is the shopkeeper's or pantry word: shelves stocked with tins, a pond stocked with trout, where with names the supply. Rarer uses survive in it too. Cows were stocked to hold their milk before sale, offenders were stocked as punishment, anchors were stocked, and, in a dated card-sharp's sense, a deck was stocked for cheating.

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