See Also: deplete(medicine)
Deplete(money)
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deplete verb. E19.
[Latin deplet- pa. ppl stem of deplere empty out, from de- DE- 3 + base of plenus full.]
verb trans. & intrans. Medicine (now rare of obsolete). Empty or relieve (the bodily system, blood-vessels) when overcharged, as by bleeding or purgatives. E19.
verb trans. Deprive of contents or stocks; empty out, exhaust; reduce the numbers or quantity of. M19.
depleted uranium uranium from which most of the fissile isotope uranium-235 has been removed, used esp. in very dense alloys for armour-piercing shells.
A. E. Stevenson As..higher grade..mineral resources are depleted, the costs of extraction..go up. A. Fraser This royal family had recently been depleted by two deaths. V. Ackland I was feeling utterly depleted and drained.
depletive,
depletory adjectives (Medicine) characterized by or causing depletion M19.