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Example sentences from the Web for depletionThe depletion of the Medicare Trust Fund had nothing to do with it. David Brooks and the Mania|Michael Tomasky|June 18, 2012|DAILY BEAST But now the real hour of crisis was at hand,—not from his illness, but from the depletion of their food supplies. The Sky Line of Spruce|Edison Marshall Fatigue is only caused in a very restricted measure by the accumulation of fatigue products or the depletion of repair stocks. Psychoanalysis|Andr Tridon Depletion added to isolation, and later tending toward degeneracy, is what makes the rural problem acute. The Challenge of the Country|George Walter Fiske
And then Smith's Pocket was found to be only a pocket, and subject like other pockets to depletion. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales|Bret Harte The supplies in the country were beginning to show signs of depletion, while little was coming in to replace it. Danger! and Other Stories|Arthur Conan Doyle
Words related to depletiondeficiency, reduction SEE SYNONYMS FOR depletion ON THESAURUS.COM
n.The act or process of depleting. The state of being depleted; exhaustion. Removal of or reduction in a body substance, such as blood, a fluid, or a nutrient. Words nearby depletiondepill, deplane, de plano, deplete, depleted uranium, depletion, depletion allowance, depletion layer, depletion region, deplorable, deplore The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. |