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depletes

verb as in consume, exhaust supply

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Example Sentences

If you're into " hot yoga," eat a banana afterward, as sweating quickly depletes your potassium stores.

By his engineering operations for water-supply he abstracts water from its natural basins and depletes the streams.

It depletes, too, in the same way, the quality of men in our public life.

Even the best of us do not bear with equanimity anything which depletes our pockets.

This of course depletes the number from which the supply must come.

Habitual use depletes vitality and so predisposes to disease.

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On this page you'll find 40 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to depletes, such as: drain, bankrupt, lessen, reduce, expend, and squander.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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