deplete

Meaning

  1. To empty or unload, as the vessels of the human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.
  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.

Pronounced as (IPA)
/dɪˈpliːt/
Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēplētus (“empty”), from depleō.

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