Depletion
[dɪ'pliːʃn] or [dɪ'pliʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of decreasing something markedly.
(noun.) the state of being depleted.
Checker: Pamela--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Inputed by Alphonso
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Exhausting, draining, emptying, evacuation.
Typist: Lucas
Examples
- But the work of depletion commenced. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It was a mere question of arithmetic to calculate how long they could hold out while that rate of depletion was going on. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- No patient will like it--certainly not Peacock's, who have been used to depletion. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Sherman's army, after all the depletions, numbered about sixty thousand effective men. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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