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deplete
/ dɪˈpliːt /
verb
to use up (supplies, money, energy, etc); reduce or exhaust
to empty entirely or partially
med to empty or reduce the fluid contents of (an organ or vessel)
Other Word Forms
- depletable adjective
- depletion noun
- depletive adjective
- depletory adjective
- nondepletable adjective
- nondepletion noun
- nondepletive adjective
- nondepletory adjective
- predeplete verb (used with object)
- predepletion noun
- undepleted adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of deplete1
Example Sentences
PSG have been depleted by a string of injuries but have won their last two games with goals after the 90th minute.
As Almond explained, when a person is “so depleted,” it becomes more likely they will do something “foolish.”
Australia can look at their own - slightly depleted - battery of fast bowlers and point out they have all those capabilities as well.
“She had her savings, which were being depleted. So, we were staring at the idea of spending her principal, and we’d keep going until it was all gone,” Pinsker writes.
The Education Department’s latest layoffs are depleting an agency already hit hard by previous mass firings, threatening new disruption to the nation’s schools.
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