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/dɪˈpliːt/ · verb
(transitive) To reduce the amount of; to remove (a substance from something):.
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.
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.
Use deplete when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Deplete means (transitive) To reduce the amount of; to remove (a substance from something):.
Common synonyms include consume, exhaust, run through, eat.
Possible antonyms include replenish.
The winter storm quickly depleted the salt supply of the county.
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