Depletion

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  • noun. The act or process of depleting.
  • noun. The state of being depleted; exhaustion.
  • noun. The use or consumption of a resource, especially a natural resource, faster than it is replenished.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of emptying, reducing, or exhausting: as, the depletion of the national resources. Specifically
  • noun. In medicine, the act of relieving congestion or plethora by any remedial means, as bloodletting, purging, sweating, vomiting, etc.; also, any general reduction of fullness, as by abstinence.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of depleting or emptying.
  • noun. the act or process of diminishing the quantity of fluid in the vessels by bloodletting or otherwise; also excessive evacuation, as in severe diarrhea.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. the act of depleting, or the state of being depleted; exhaustion
  • noun. the consumption of a resource faster than it can be replenished
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the act of decreasing something markedly
  • noun. the state of being depleted
    • Word Usage
    "In conclusion, drug-induced nutrient depletion is far more common than we thought."
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Grecian  Phoenician  Venetian  accretion  carburetion  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    activation  anergy  apoptosis  breakdown  corrosion  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ablation  absorption  assimilation  attrition  burning up  
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