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Depletion

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The act or process of depleting.

n. The state of being depleted; exhaustion.

n. The use or consumption of a resource, especially a natural resource, faster than it is replenished.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. the act of depleting, or the state of being depleted; exhaustion

n. the consumption of a resource faster than it can be replenished

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of depleting or emptying.

n. the act or process of diminishing the quantity of fluid in the vessels by bloodletting or otherwise; also excessive evacuation, as in severe diarrhea.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of emptying, reducing, or exhausting: as, the depletion of the national resources. Specifically

n. 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.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the act of decreasing something markedly

n. the state of being depleted

Word Usage

"Consistent in the sense that Wada et al's finding of increasing groundwater depletion is in line with Syed et al's finding that the rate of river runoff is increasing."

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Grecian Phoenician Venetian accretion carburetion

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

pollution erosion corrosion depreciation deterioration