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depleteverb to make complete use ofminers depleted the vein of copper ore after only a few months absorb, burn, consume, devour, drain, draw down, exhaust, expend, play out, spend, use up abate, decrease, de-escalate, diminish, downsize, dwindle, lessen, lower, reduceeat, usebankrupt, clean (out), impoverishcripple, debilitate, disable, enfeeble, sap, undermine, weakendry up, emptyblow, dissipate, fritter (away), guzzle, lavish, misspend, run through, squander, throw away, waste run out of renew, replace augment, enlarge, increasebolster, enforce, fortify, reinforce(also reenforce), strengthenrebuild, repair, restore, reviveconserve, preserve, save to make smaller in amount, volume, or extentdisease and battlefield casualties had depleted troop strength to dangerously low levels abate, de-escalate, decrease, dent, diminish, downscale, downsize, drop, dwindle, ease, knock down, lessen, lower, reduce compress, condense, constrict, contractabbreviate, abridge, clip, crop, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, dock, nick, pare, prune, retrench, shorten, slash, trim, truncate, whittledeflate, shrinkminimizemoderate, modify, modulate, qualify aggrandize, amplify, augment, boost, enlarge, escalate, expand, increase, raise blow up, dilate, distend, inflate, swellelongate, extend, lengthen, prolong, protractadd (to), complement, supplementenhance, heighten, intensifyredouble deplete, drain, exhaust, impoverish, bankrupt mean to deprive of something essential to existence or potency.deplete implies a reduction in number or quantity so as to endanger the ability to function.depleting our natural resources drain implies a gradual withdrawal and ultimate deprivation of what is necessary to an existence.personal tragedy had drained him of all spirit exhaust stresses a complete emptying.her lecture exhausted the subject impoverish suggests a deprivation of something essential to richness or productiveness.impoverished soil bankrupt suggests impoverishment to the point of imminent collapse.war had bankrupted the nation of resources in 1807 |