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The Meaning of deplete

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

Synonyms

exhaust , take in , eat on , eat up , play out , expel , ware , wash up , eat , erase , release , corrode , beat , tire , kill , go through , eliminate , take , have , occupy , waste , finish , use up , swallow , tucker , polish off , decimate , tucker out , rust , feed , ingest , swallow up , obliterate , run through , extinguish , squander , annihilate , wipe out , bury , down , discharge , run down , work through , devour , sweep away , sap , cancel out , eject , immerse , consume , carry off , eradicate , spend , expend , drop

Rhymes

amit , athlete , backseat , beat , beet , bittersweet , bleat , bradstreet , breit , bridgette , browbeat , buckwheat , bufete , cheat , cleat , cliett , compete , complete , conceit , concrete , crabmeat , crete , deadbeat , deceit , defeat , delete , discreet , discrete , downbeat , drumbeat , eat , effete , elite , excrete , feat , feet , fleet , freet , gamete , gleet , greet , grete , heartbeat , heat , incomplete , indiscreet , jobete , keitt , kriete , lalit , lanete , leet , leete , leite , longstreet , margarete , marguerite , marquerite , meat , meet , mesquite , mete , mincemeat , mistreat , murveit , neat , neet , noncompete , obsolete , offbeat , overeat , overheat , parakeet , peat , peet , peete , pete , petite , piet , piette , pleat , puneet , quiett , receipt , repeat , replete , retreat , seat , secrete , sheet , shumeet , skeat , skeet , skeete , sleet , spreadsheet , st , street , suite , sweatt , sweet , swete , teat , teet , threatt , threet , thweatt , treat , tweet , uncomplete , unseat , upbeat , vanvliet , veit , vliet , wheat , worksheet