deplete Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb use up (resources or materials)
    exhaust; consume; wipe out; use up; eat up; eat; run through.
    • this car consumes a lot of gas
    • We exhausted our savings
    • They run through 20 bottles of wine a week

WordNet

De*plete" transitive verb
Etymology
From L. deplere to empty out; de- + plere to fill. Forined like replete, complete. See Fill, Full, a.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Depleted; present participle & verbal noun Depleting
Definitions
  1. (Med.) To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine. Copland.
  2. To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc. Saturday Review.

Webster 1913