[
US
/dɪˈpɫit/
]
[ UK /dɪplˈiːt/ ]
[ UK /dɪplˈiːt/ ]
VERB
-
use up (resources or materials)
They run through 20 bottles of wine a week
this car consumes a lot of gas
We exhausted our savings
How To Use deplete In A Sentence
- In a matter of hours, the Bay area was completely depleted of pumps, splashboards and self-bailers.
- By the end of the winter the supply of grain was severely depleted.
- In the northern Bering and southern Chukchi Seas, primary production occurs over a shallow shelf (50 to 200 m) and as the zooplankton and bacterioplankton cannot fully deplete this carbon source, it is either transferred to the benthos or advected downstream [17]. Carbon cycle and climate change in the Arctic
- At roughly the same time, military orders for depleted uranium munitions stopped too.
- As the fat reserves are depleted, the texture changes to what I call semi-wax in my notes. grouse Diary Entry
- And I told my creditors that we needed to give these people 10 days of severance, even though that would deplete the rest of our cash.
- Salmon populations have been severely depleted recently.
- Large parts of the marsh are now in use as a buffer area when food stock is temporarily depleted.
- Natural deterrents against sea erosion (mangroves, sandbanks, reefs etc.) have been depleted to such extents that their revival cannot be considered a viable plan to counter sea disasters.
- Diuretic drugs such as furosemide or the thiazides should not be used because they deplete sodium from the body.