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==English==

===Etymology===
{{root|en|ine-pro|*pleh₁-}}
{{bor+|en|la|dēplētus||empty}}, from {{m|la|depleō}}. {{etydate|1716}}; originally a medical term.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/dɪˈpliːt/|a=RP}}
* {{IPA|en|/dɪˈplit/|/diˈplit/|/dəˈplit/|a=GA}}
** {{audio|en|en-us-deplete.ogg|a=US}}
* {{rhymes|en|iːt|s=2}}

===Verb===
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[reduce]] the [[amount]] of; to [[remove]] {{gloss|a [[substance]] from [[something]]}}:
#: {{ux|en|The winter storm quickly '''depleted''' the salt supply of the county.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|year=1954|month=May|author=John W. Grant|title=A Railway Requiem|journal=Railway Magazine|page=352|text=Their numbers have been very heavily '''depleted''' in the last few years, and soon a most familiar part of the southern railway scene will have vanished: {{...}}.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1975|author=William Roscoe Kintner|author2=Harvey Sicherman|title=Technology and International Politics: The Crisis of Wishing|text=... '''depleting''' the minerals and fuels of the more developed states, leading to a scarcity of these crucial resources.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1982|title=Are Current Emergency Planning Requirements Justified?: Workshop Proceedings
|text=[page 1-54:] Here [in Gabon ...], concentrations of slightly enriched uranium were deposited as sediments in a stream bed and formed seven separate water moderated reactors which operated for thousands of years, '''depleting''' the uranium and producing fission products, plutonium and other actinides.}}
## {{lb|en|chemistry}} To [[expend]] or [[separate]] a [[reactant]].
## {{lb|en|medicine}} To [[reduce]] the [[amount]] of a [[substance]] with a [[medication]] or [[medical]] [[procedure]] or due to a [[illness]].
##: {{ux|en|Certain medications can '''deplete''' [[vitamin D]].}}
## To [[use up]], [[exhaust]], or [[consume]] {{gloss|[[power]] or [[resource]]s}}.
##* {{quote-book|en|year=2007|author=w:John Zerzan|title=Silence|text=Its reserves have been invaded and '''depleted'''.|url=https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/john-zerzan-silence}}
##* {{quote-journal|en|author=L. J. Shrum; Elena Fumagalli; Tina M. Lowrey|doi=10.1002/jcpy.1329|date=2022-10-25|volume=33|issue=2|pages=441–465|work=Journal of Consumer Psychology|title=Coping with loneliness through consumption|text=Constant vigilance for social threats and the negative emotions it produces (e.g., anxiety) '''deplete''' self-regulatory resources.}}
## {{lb|en|physics|rare}} To [[decrease]] the [[amount]] of an [[isotope]] {{gloss|in a [[mixture]] of [[isotope]]s}}.
##: {{ant|en|enrich}}
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[empty]] or [[purge]] {{gloss|[[something]] of a [[substance]]}}.
#: {{ux|en|The conservation project '''depleted''' the lake of algae.}}
#: {{ux|en|This drug can '''deplete''' the body of magnesium.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1716|author=<nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:John Radcliffe (physician, born 1650)|John Radcliffe]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>|title=Pharmacopœia Radcliffeana: or, Dr. Radcliff's Preſcriptions|chapter=Electuarium Phthiſicum|edition=second corrected|publisher=w:Charles Rivington|location=w:London|page=22|url=https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=RBNgAAAAcAAJ|passage=However, every Practitioner ought to be appriz'd of a ſtanding Truth in all Coughs of this Kind, that ſome proper Evacuations ought to precede, in order to revulſe the Motion from the Lungs to ſome distant Goal, as well as to '''deplete''' the Veſſels of ſuch a troubleſome Lodger.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2005|author=Teresa Cutter|title=The 80/20 Diet: 12 Weeks to a Better Body|publisher=Allen & Unwin|isbn=9781740456470|page=21
|text=... '''deplete''' the body of minerals, causing osteoporosis.}}
## {{lb|en|chemistry}} To [[clear]] a [[compound]] or [[solution]] {{gloss|of a [[reactant]]}}.
##* {{quote-book|en|date=February 2017|author=James L. Smialek|title=Unusual oxidative limitations for Al-MAX phases
|chapter=Cr<sub>2</sub>AlC Issues: Scale Adhesion|publisher=w:NASA|series=NASA technical memorandum|seriesvolume=2017-219444|location=w:Cleveland, Ohio|page=15|oclc=989877639|url=https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20170001576/downloads/20170001576.pdf|passage=Cycling also produces layered scales, as repeated spallation further '''depletes''' the compound of Al and allows Cr<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> formation.}}
## {{lb|en|physics}} To [[clear]] a [[mixture]] of [[isotope]]s {{gloss|of an [[isotope]] or [[isotope]]s}}.
##: {{ant|en|enrich}}
##* {{quote-book|en|year=1999|author=Naomi H. Harley [''et al.'']|title=A Review of the Scientific Literature As It Pertains to Gulf War Illnesses|volume=7: Depleted Uranium|publisher=w:RAND|location=w:Santa Monica, CA|page=xiii|isbn=9780585344935|oclc=47009663|url=https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monograph_reports/2005/MR1018.7.sum.pdf|passage=The by-product of this process, which '''depletes''' uranium of its most radioactive isotopes, is called depleted uranium (DU).}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To [[diminish]] in [[quantity]] or [[strength]]; to be [[consume]]d.
#: {{ux|en|I noticed a couple of days ago how quickly the battery '''depletes'''.}}
#: {{ux|en|Depending on what you print, one color usually '''depletes''' faster than the others.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=17 Dec 89|volume=17|number=23|journal=Gay Community News|page=5|author=Edward Inman|title=Disobeying An Order To Piss Lands Transsexual In Isolation|text=He said that if I could not urinate within the next few hours I would be charged with refusing to comply with an order and be punished. In spite of my inability to eat much due to my '''depleted''' physical condition, I drank as much as I could and still was unable to urinate within the prescribed time.}}
## {{lb|en|chemistry}} To be [[expend]]ed or [[separate]]d {{gloss|of a [[substance]]}}.
##* {{quote-book|en|date=24 June 2008|page=54|author=Dagmar Hülsenberg|author2=Alf Harnisch|author3=Alexander Bismarck|title=Microstructuring of Glasses|chapter=1. Silicate Glasses: A Class of Amorphous Materials|pageurl=https://www.google.co.nz/books/edition/Microstructuring_of_Glasses/wuD5JHZ7ajIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA54|publisher=w:Springer Science+Business Media|location=w:Berlin|isbn=9783540498889|doi=
10.1007/978-3-540-49888-9|oclc=272298781|passage=As can be seen in Fig. 1.49, FS 21 rapidly '''depletes''' of Li<sup>+</sup> near the surface during the exposure to a NaNO<sub>3</sub> melt and simultaneously enriches in Na<sup>+</sup>.}} 
## {{lb|en|physics}} To [[undergo]] [[loss]] of an [[isotope]].
##* {{quote-book|en|date=10 February 2025|page=54|author=Farid Gamgami|title=Space Propulsion and Spaceship Design: A System Perspective|chapter=11. Nuclear Propulsion Technology and Systems|url=https://www.google.co.nz/books/edition/Space_Propulsion_and_Spaceship_Design/pYREEQAAQBAJhl=en&gbpv=0|publisher=w:Springer Science+Business Media|location=w:Berlin|isbn=9783540498889|doi=
10.1007/978-3-031-71336-1|oclc=1501339420|passage=Since uranium '''depletes''' in this process, it is called fissile fuel, nuclear fuel or simply fuel.}} 

====Antonyms====
* {{l|en|replenish}}

====Derived terms====
{{col|en|depletable|depletant|depleter|depletome|immunodeplete|lymphodeplete|ribodeplete|hemodepleting|immunodepleting|nondepleting|depletive|depletory}}

====Related terms====
* {{l|en|depletion}}
* {{l|en|complete}}
* {{l|en|replete}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|reduce the amount of or remove}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|изпразвам}}, {{t+|bg|изчерпвам}}
* Chinese:
*: Hokkien: {{t|nan-hbl|弄空|tr=làng-khang}}
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|耗竭|tr=hàojié}}, {{t+|cmn|放血|tr=fàngxuè}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|leegmaken}}, {{t+|nl|opruimen}}, {{t+|nl|afbreken}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|tyhjetä}}, {{t+|fi|kulua}} {{q|intransitive}}; {{t+|fi|tyhjentää}}, {{t+|fi|kuluttaa}} {{q|transitive}}
* French: {{t+|fr|vider}}
* Galician: {{t|gl|esgotar}}
* German: {{t+|de|leeren}}, {{t+|de|räumen}}, {{t+|de|aufbrauchen}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|εκκενώνω}}, {{t+|el|αδειάζω}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|kiürít}}, {{t+|hu|kimerít}}
* Indonesian: {{t+|id|menguras}}, {{t+|id|mengosongkan}}
* Interlingua: {{t|ia|depler}}
* Latin: {{t|la|exhauriō}}
* Malagasy: {{t+|mg|manala}}
* Occitan: {{t+|oc|agotar}}, {{t|oc|amermar}}, {{t|oc|amenir}}, {{t+|oc|demesir}}, {{t+|oc|mermar}}, {{t+|oc|voidar}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|exaurir}}, {{t+|pt|esgotar}}, {{t+|pt|esvaziar}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|очища́ть}} {{qualifier|кише́чник}}, {{qualifier|bloodletting}} {{t|ru|производи́ть кровопуска́ние}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|depletar}}, {{t+|es|mermar}}, {{t+|es|agotar}}, {{t|es|depletear}}, {{t|es|deplecionar}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-see|use up or exhaust|exhaust}}

===References===
* {{R:OneLook}}

{{c|en|Medicine}}
{{cln|en|causative verbs}}

==Italian==

===Adjective===
{{head|it|adjective form}}

# {{feminine plural of|it|depleto}}

==Latin==

===Verb===
{{head|la|verb form|head=dēplēte}}

# {{inflection of|la|dēpleō||2|p|pres|actv|impr}}