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depletingverbpresent participle of deplete to make complete use ofminers depleted the vein of copper ore after only a few months absorbing, burning, consuming, devouring, draining, drawing down, exhausting, expending, playing out, spending, using up abating, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, downsizing, dwindling, lessening, lowering, reducingeating, usingbankrupting, cleaning (out), impoverishingcrippling, debilitating, disabling, enfeebling, sapping, undermining, weakeningdrying up, emptyingblowing, dissipating, frittering (away), guzzling, lavishing, misspending, running through, squandering, throwing away, wasting running out of renewing, replacing augmenting, enlarging, increasingbolstering, enforcing, fortifying, reinforcing(also reenforcing), strengtheningrebuilding, repairing, restoring, revivingconserving, preserving, saving to make smaller in amount, volume, or extentdisease and battlefield casualties had depleted troop strength to dangerously low levels abating, decreasing, de-escalating, denting, diminishing, downscaling, downsizing, dropping, dwindling, easing, knocking down, lessening, lowering, reducing compressing, condensing, constricting, contractingabbreviating, abridging, clipping, cropping, curtailing, cutting, cutting back, cutting down, docking, nicking, paring, pruning, retrenching, shortening, slashing, trimming, truncating, whittlingdeflating, shrinkingminimizingmoderating, modifying, modulating, qualifying aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, boosting, enlarging, escalating, expanding, increasing, raising blowing up, dilating, distending, inflating, swellingelongating, extending, lengthening, prolonging, protractingadding (to), complementing, supplementingenhancing, heightening, intensifyingredoubling |