deplete
verb (used with object)
to decrease seriously or exhaust the abundance or supply of.
was depleting
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past progressiveof deplete.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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“She was always glued to the news … it was depleting her.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2023
Decades ago, lab work was enough to figure out the complex chemistry that was depleting the ozone hole, Cziczo says.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 15, 2020
Jackson was asked in an interview when she returned to Broadway last year, to star in “Three Tall Women,” if acting was depleting.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2019
But to see women’s pain reiterated so endlessly and broadly was depleting in ways I simply didn’t expect.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2018
Consulting the compass so often was depleting our match supply, and I tried to depend on the faint breath of a breeze which sometimes seemed to die away altogether.
From Three Times and Out by Nellie L. McClung
