deplete

CEFRC1

/dɪˈpliːt/

verb

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01
verb
To use up most or all of a supply.
02
verb
Extra detail
To reduce the amount of; to remove (a substance from something)

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

To expend or separate a reactant.
To reduce the amount of a substance with a medication or medical procedure or due to a illness.
To use up, exhaust, or consume (power or resources).

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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: […].
1954 May, John W. Grant, “A Railway Requiem”, in Railway Magazine, page 352
... depleting the minerals and fuels of the more developed states, leading to a scarcity of these crucial resources.
1975, William Roscoe Kintner, Harvey Sicherman, Technology and International Politics: The Crisis of Wishing
[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.
1982, Are Current Emergency Planning Requirements Justified?: Workshop Proceedings
Its reserves have been invaded and depleted.
2007, John Zerzan, Silence
Constant vigilance for social threats and the negative emotions it produces (e.g., anxiety) deplete self-regulatory resources.
2022 October 25, L. J. Shrum, Elena Fumagalli, Tina M. Lowrey, “Coping with loneliness through consumption”, in Journal of Consumer Psychology, volume 33, number 2, →DOI, pages 441–465

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Borrowed from Latin dēplētus (“empty”), from depleō. First attested in 1716; originally a medical term.