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deplete
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deplete
v.
exhaust, consume, use up, empty, reduce
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Depletion
Depletion may refer to:
- Depletion (accounting), an accounting concept that may be relating to:
- Oil depletion, the declining of oil supply
- Overdrafting, extracting groundwater beyond the equilibrium yield of an aquifer
- Ozone depletion, a decline in the total amount of ozone in Earth's stratosphere
- Resource depletion, the exhaustion of raw materials within a region
- in physics:
- Depletion region, a concept of semiconductor physics
- Depletion width, a concept of semiconductor physics
- Depletion force, an effective force in molecular and colloidal systems
- Grain boundary depletion, a mechanism of corrosion
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deplete
Verb
1. use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
(synonym) consume, eat up, use up, eat, exhaust, run through, wipe out
(hypernym) spend, expend, drop
(hyponym) run out
(verb-group) take, occupy, use up
(derivation) depletion
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deplete
v.
výrazně snížit
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deplete
Czas.
uszczuplać; wyczerpywać
