Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Extremely tired; exhausted or worn out.
- adjective Relating to or being uranium whose fissionable isotope uranium 235 has been mostly removed, consisting primarily of the remaining isotope uranium 238.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective no longer sufficient.
- adjective having resources completely depleted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Used up, expended; of which nothing is left.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
deplete .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective no longer sufficient
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Examples
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But balancing that is the fact that as our farming has intensified, nutrients have been depleted from the soil, so that a zucchini today has fewer nutrients that a zucchini bought 100 years ago.
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The rapid rate at which our forests are being depleted is causing the high cost of lumber today, and it may be of interest to many to know that the average increase of one acre of mixed timber trees is 14 ft. of sawed lumber per year.
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The rapid rate at which our forests are being depleted is causing the high cost of lumber today, and it may be of interest to many to know that the average increase of one acre of mixed timber trees is 14 ft. of sawed lumber per year.
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In the West, keeping them green is draining what little water is left in depleted water-tables.
First Sustainable New Housing Development in the Region. 2008
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The rapid rate at which our forests are being depleted is causing the high cost of lumber today, and it may be of interest to many to know that the average increase of one acre of mixed timber trees is 14 ft. of sawed lumber per year.
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With respect I think that the idea that drug dealers will resort to more innocent business such as crochet, or garden gnome manufacturing once their trade has been depleted is optimistic.
Freud ..not that one Newmania 2007
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I was depleted from the painting jag when I got up this morning.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES: LESBIANS HAVING BABIES Maggie Jochild 2007
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So make sure and get your magnetic bumper ribbon for the car encouraging our young resourseful people can breathe in depleted uranium dust while dodging bombs and bullets as we occupy a people.
Think Progress » Defense Department Disavows Santorum’s WMD Claims 2006
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As we remarked earlier, so depleted is our helicopter force that Browne is having to scavenge one from the Falklands and has managed to "tease out" one from the UK.
Ideas above his station Richard 2006
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This is especially true for bucks, whose fat stores are depleted from the rut.
Trophy Season 2003
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