Dictionary Definition
deplete v : use up (resources or materials);
"this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They
run through 20 bottles of wine a week" [syn: consume, eat up, use up, eat, exhaust, run through,
wipe
out]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -iːt
Verb
- To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.
- To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to
exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of
money, etc.
- 2007. Zerzan, John. Silence.
- Its reserves have been invaded and depleted.
- 2007. Zerzan, John. Silence.
Translations
to empty or unload
- German: leeren, räumen, aufbrauchen
- Hungarian: kiürít
to exhaust
- German: erschöpfen, dezimieren
- Hungarian: kimerít
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- ttbc [[Portuguese: exaurir
Extensive Definition
Depletion may refer to:
- Depletion region
- Depletion width
- Grain boundary depletion
- Oil depletion
- Ozone depletion
- Resource depletion
- Tax depletion
- School depletion
deplete in French: déplétion
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
ablate,
absorb, assimilate, bankrupt, bleed, bleed white, blow, blow out, burn up, clean out,
clear, clear away, clear
off, clear out, clear the decks, consume, cripple, debilitate, decrease, defecate, depreciate, dig into,
digest, diminish, disable, dissipate, drain, drain of resources,
draw, draw down, draw off,
dribble away, dry up, eat,
eat up, eliminate,
empty, empty out, enfeeble, erode, evacuate, exhaust, expend, finish, finish off, gobble, gobble up, impoverish, ingest, lessen, milk, purge, reduce, remove, sap, scour out, shrink, spend, squander, suck dry, swallow, swallow up, sweep out,
unclog, undermine, unfoul, use up, vent, void, wash up, waste, waste away, weaken, wear, wear away