Synonyms for deplete
dɪˈplitde·plete

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1. consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe outverb

   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"

   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

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1. depleteverb

   Synonyms:
   exhaust, drain, evacuate, empty

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1. List of paraphrases for "deplete":

   impoverish, exhaust

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How to use deplete in a sentence?

1. John Kirby:

   And so they've had to deplete certain units... in certain areas in the East in the Donbass, to respond to what they clearly believed was a looming threat of a counter offensive.

2. Ramana Pemmaraju:

   Only when you go beyond Mind, will you be able to respect the energy that inhabits us; until then you will either exploit others with your energy or will deplete your energy, leading a purposeless life!

3. Michal Baranowski:

   The fact is that we are fighting with time, right? i mean, it’s really whether time is on the side of Russia, who is losing but has a lot of resources to deplete us in the West. That’s what gives me pause. I hope we have the staying power.

4. Aloo Denish Obiero:

   In the hands of humanity lies the sacred duty to nurture, not deplete; to protect, not plunder. Our legacy is not measured in conquest but in conservation.

5. Joe DiPastena:

   When the economy started to tank and my investments started to dwindle... I started to get pretty nervous, i didn't want to deplete my savings.