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Depleted   /dɪplˈitɪd/   Listen
verb
Deplete  v. t.  (past & past part. depleted; pres. part. depleting)  
1.
(Med.) To empty or unload, as the vessels of 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.


adjective
depleted  adj.  
1.
No longer sufficient; as, our funds are depleted.
Synonyms: low.
2.
Having resources completely depleted.
Synonyms: drained.





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"Depleted" Quotes from Famous Books



... they, with equal courage and persistency, determined on holding, Pickett and Anderson, of Longstreet's Division, and Hood and Whiting, of Jackson's, threw their strength and weight to the aid of Hill's depleted ranks. The enemy could stand no longer. The line is broken at one point, then another, and as the Confederates closed in on them from all sides, they break in disorder and leave the field. It looked at one time as if there ...
— History of Kershaw's Brigade • D. Augustus Dickert
... weak condition that they had to be carried out in sheets or helped along between two men, and the Parliamentary officer adds, rather tersely, that 'the rest were not very fit to march.' The scurvy had depleted the ranks of the defenders to such an extent that the women in the castle, despite the presence of Lady Cholmley, threatened to stone the ...
— Yorkshire--Coast & Moorland Scenes • Gordon Home
... brought the information that the batteries had been greatly depleted by the tremendous exertions of the Dewey. The supply of "juice" certainly could not ...
— The Brighton Boys with the Submarine Fleet • James R. Driscoll
... limited supplies of potable water; wildlife populations being depleted because of excessive hunting; overgrazing; soil degradation; ...
— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... to do her share of the physical readjustment? Can she afford, or will she be permitted to remain in bed long enough to allow conditions to be favorable to getting up without "taking a chance"? Inasmuch as her muscular tone is poor, her strength depleted, her vitality wasted, her ambition and hope at a low ebb, nature should be given a longer time, under the most favorable hygienic and domestic conditions, to help in the problem of readjustment, because her whole future, as an efficient ...
— The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • W. Grant Hague


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