DEPLETED • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Depleted

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/dɪplˈitɪd/ Listen

verb

Deplete v. t. (past & past part. depleted; pres. part. depleting)

(Med.) To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.

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.

No longer sufficient; as, our funds are depleted.

Synonyms: low.

Having resources completely depleted.

Synonyms: drained.

See images of 'Depleted'

Etymology of 'Depleted'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Depleted" Quotes from Famous Books

... when and where I lost all I had gained in a fortnight of stalwart self-disciplining; rather it was where I regained all I haply had lost. When, gorged and comatose, I staggered from that fair matron's depleted table I should never have dared to trundle over a wooden culvert at faster than four miles an hour. Either I should have slowed down or waited until they could put in some ...

— One Third Off • Irvin S. Cobb

... in a stony stare on the opposite wall. Mr. Kybird, who had ever a wholesome dread of falling a victim to his friend's cuteness, regarded him with some uncertainty, and reminded him of one or two pieces of information which had seriously depleted his till. ...

— At Sunwich Port, Complete • W.W. Jacobs

... of the store were sadly depleted; never was a store open for business with so little in it. A few canned goods of ancient vintages and a bolt or two of coloured cotton were all that could be seen. Nevertheless, the French outfit was a factor ...

— The Huntress • Hulbert Footner

... Poor's, and Reed's, from New Hampshire, who, with Paterson's, have just arrived in camp from Ticonderoga; the remnants of McDougall's and Ritzema's New York Continentals, and Weedon's, Scott's, Elliot's, Buckner's, and Reed's Virginians. How depleted are these battalions, many of them ...

— The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn • Henry P. Johnston

... and cut up the virgin wilderness into fiefs, while as yet the colonies of England were but a weak and broken line along the shore of the Atlantic; and when at last the great conflict came, England and Liberty would have been confronted, not by a depleted antagonist, still feeble from the exhaustion of a starved and persecuted infancy, but by an athletic champion of the principles of Richelieu and ...

— The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century • Francis Parkman

More quotes...