deplete
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dēplētus (“empty”), from depleō. First attested in 1716; originally a medical term.
Inflected forms:
form: depletes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: depleting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: depleted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: depleted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To reduce the amount of; to remove (a substance from something)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The winter storm quickly depleted the salt supply of the county.
Their numbers have been very heavily depleted in the last few years, and soon a most familiar part of the southern railway scene will have vanished: […].
... depleting the minerals and fuels of the more developed states, leading to a scarcity of these crucial resources.
[page 1-54:] Here [in Gabon ...], concentrations of slightly enriched uranium were deposited as sediments in a stream bed and formed seven separate water moderated reactors which operated for thousands of years, depleting the uranium and producing fission products, plutonium and other actinides.
gloss: To reduce the amount of; to remove (a substance from something):
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To reduce the amount of; to remove (a substance from something):
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Certain medications can deplete vitamin D.
gloss: To reduce the amount of; to remove (a substance from something):
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Its reserves have been invaded and depleted.
Constant vigilance for social threats and the negative emotions it produces (e.g., anxiety) deplete self-regulatory resources.
gloss: To reduce the amount of; to remove (a substance from something):
pos: verb
tags: rare
transitive
gloss: To empty or purge (something of a substance).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The conservation project depleted the lake of algae.
This drug can deplete the body of magnesium.
However, every Practitioner ought to be appriz'd of a ſtanding Truth in all Coughs of this Kind, that ſome proper Evacuations ought to precede, in order to revulſe the Motion from the Lungs to ſome distant Goal, as well as to deplete the Veſſels of ſuch a troubleſome Lodger.
... deplete the body of minerals, causing osteoporosis.
gloss: To empty or purge (something of a substance).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Cycling also produces layered scales, as repeated spallation further depletes the compound of Al and allows Cr₂O₃ formation.
gloss: To empty or purge (something of a substance).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The by-product of this process, which depletes uranium of its most radioactive isotopes, is called depleted uranium (DU).
gloss: To diminish in quantity or strength; to be consumed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I noticed a couple of days ago how quickly the battery depletes.
Depending on what you print, one color usually depletes faster than the others.
He said that if I could not urinate within the next few hours I would be charged with refusing to comply with an order and be punished. In spite of my inability to eat much due to my depleted physical condition, I drank as much as I could and still was unable to urinate within the prescribed time.
gloss: To diminish in quantity or strength; to be consumed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: As can be seen in Fig. 1.49, FS 21 rapidly depletes of Li⁺ near the surface during the exposure to a NaNO₃ melt and simultaneously enriches in Na⁺.
gloss: To diminish in quantity or strength; to be consumed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Since uranium depletes in this process, it is called fissile fuel, nuclear fuel or simply fuel.
Antonyms: replenish
Related words: depletion
complete
replete
Derived words: depletable
depletant
depleter
depletive
depletome
depletory
hemodepleting
immunodeplete
immunodepleting
lymphodeplete
nondepleting
ribodeplete
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: изпразвам
roman: izprazvam
lang: Bulgarian
word: изчерпвам
roman: izčerpvam
lang: Chinese
word: 弄空
roman: làng-khang
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 耗竭
roman: hàojié
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 放血
roman: fàngxuè
lang: Dutch
word: leegmaken
lang: Dutch
word: opruimen
lang: Dutch
word: afbreken
lang: Finnish
word: tyhjetä
lang: Finnish
word: kulua
lang: Finnish
word: tyhjentää
lang: Finnish
word: kuluttaa
lang: French
word: vider
lang: German
word: leeren
lang: German
word: räumen
lang: German
word: aufbrauchen
lang: Greek
word: εκκενώνω
roman: ekkenóno
lang: Greek
word: αδειάζω
roman: adeiázo
lang: Hungarian
word: kiürít
lang: Hungarian
word: kimerít
lang: Indonesian
word: menguras
lang: Indonesian
word: mengosongkan
lang: Interlingua
word: depler
lang: Latin
word: exhauriō
lang: Malagasy
word: manala
lang: Occitan
word: agotar
lang: Occitan
word: amermar
lang: Occitan
word: amenir
lang: Occitan
word: demesir
lang: Occitan
word: mermar
lang: Occitan
word: voidar
lang: Portuguese
word: exaurir
lang: Portuguese
word: esgotar
lang: Portuguese
word: esvaziar
lang: Russian
word: очища́ть
roman: očiščátʹ
lang: Russian
word: производи́ть кровопуска́ние
roman: bloodletting
lang: Spanish
word: depletar
lang: Spanish
word: mermar
lang: Spanish
word: agotar
lang: Spanish
word: depletear
lang: Spanish
word: deplecionar