Definition of depletes Depletes
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What does depletes mean?
Part of speech
🔤- depletes, verb, present, 3rd person singular of deplete (infinitive).
WordNet
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| deplete - 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" | ||
| consume, eat up, use up, eat, exhaust, run through, wipe out | ||
| expend, spend, drop pay out; "spend money" | ||
| run out become used up; be exhausted; "Our supplies finally ran out" | ||
| drain empty of liquid; drain the liquid from; "We drained the oil tank" | ||
| luxuriate, indulge thrive profusely or flourish extensively | ||
| burn off, burn up, burn clear land of its vegetation by burning it off | ||
| spend pay out; "spend money" | ||
| use up, occupy, take live (in a certain place); "She resides in Princeton"; "he occupies two rooms on the top floor" | ||
| sap, play out, tire, exhaust, run down excavate the earth beneath | ||
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Wiktionary 
- deplete (Verb)
To empty or unload, as the vessels of the human system, by bloodletting or by medicine. - deplete (Verb)
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.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- deplete (a.)
To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine. - deplete (a.)
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.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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deplete
To use up resources or materials. -
deplete
To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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deplete
de-plēt′, v.t. to empty, reduce, exhaust.—n. Deplē′tion, the act of emptying or exhausting: (med.) the act of relieving congestion or plethora, by purging, blood-letting, or reduction of the system by abstinence.—adjs. Deplē′tive, Deplē′tory. [L. deplēre, deplētum, to empty, de, neg., plēre, to fill.]
Part of speech
🔤- deplete, verb, present, 1st person singular of deplete (infinitive).
- deplete, verb (infinitive).
