0 present participle of deplete --
1 to reduce something in size or amount, especially supplies of energy, money, etc.: --
As we have seen, this body of early and mid-nineteenth-century disciplinary doctrine was itself related to atmospheric and climatic, and particularly oxygen producing and depleting processes.
Inner-city youth are deemed successful when they leave the neighbourhood, further depleting the community of valuable resources.
Freud was correct, then, that grief and loss do empty us for a time, depleting us in waves and paroxysms.
The concerns that elephant population increase could result in them depleting food for impala, kudu and giraffe thus, negatively affecting their population is not supported by this study.
Mindful, perhaps, of how urban consumption was depleting the passenger pigeon population, others emphasized the bird's culinary merits as an incentive.
A system of reservoirs was constructed near large building complexes, and a low-gradient, shallow spillway canal drained excess water without depleting the water storage.
It could operate up to 45 min before depleting the energy stored in the batteries.
Attempts a t modulating this rejection process have therefore targeted this so-called direct pathway of antigen recognition, by depleting the passenger leukocytes in the graft.
