0 to reduce something in size or amount, especially supplies of energy, money, etc. -- 消耗；耗費（資源、金錢、精力等）
Disruptions were problematic because they took up the carers' time and depleted their energy.
Whether the resource is depleted biologically in these cases depends on costs and prices.
As the basal solid forms and releases fluid depleted of component /3, the composition of the melt falls.
The profile also results in a heavily depleted electron density.
Because this excessive capacity has rapidly depleted fish stocks, profitability has plunged, reducing the value of ships on the market.
This pressure periodically provoked crises as the exchange reserves were depleted, necessitating short-term constraints on domestic economic policy.
The easily worked oxidised ore was largely depleted and the underlying sulfide deposits were proving difficult and costly to treat.
The wire cores are gradually depleted as they ablate more coronal material that is rapidly accelerated towards the accreting precursor plasma on axis.
