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DEPLETE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does deplete mean?

• DEPLETE (verb)
The verb DEPLETE has 1 sense:

1. use up (resources or materials)

Familiarity information: DEPLETE used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• DEPLETE (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Use up (resources or materials)

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

deplete; use up; wipe out; eat up; exhaust; run through; eat; consume

Context examples:

this car consumes a lot of gas / We exhausted our savings / They run through 20 bottles of wine a week

Hypernyms (to "deplete" is one way to...):

drop; expend; spend (pay out)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "deplete"):

run out (exhaust the supply of)

drain (deplete of resources)

indulge; luxuriate (enjoy to excess)

burn; burn off; burn up (use up (energy))

spend (spend completely)

exhaust; play out; run down; sap; tire (deplete)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

They deplete him of all his money

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