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Synonyms for depletion

Grammar : Noun
Spell : dih-pleet
Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈplit

Définition of depletion

Origin :
  • 1650s, from Late Latin depletionem (nominative depletio) "blood-letting," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin deplere "to empty," literally "to un-fill," from de- "off, away" (see de-) + plere "to fill" (see pleio-).
  • noun exhaustion
Example sentences :
  • One result of the recent battle was the depletion of the color-guard.
  • Extract from : « Company G » by A. R. (Albert Rowe) Barlow
  • And then Smith's Pocket was found to be only a pocket, and subject like other pockets to depletion.
  • Extract from : « The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales » by Bret Harte
  • A similar affection is occasionally produced by the abuse of opium, excessive mental anxiety, night watching, or depletion.
  • Extract from : « Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I » by Arnold Cooley
  • The depletion and anodynes of the physician were administered in vain.
  • Extract from : « The Cavaliers of Virginia » by William A. Caruthers
  • All tragedies are not those of violence, but of depletion, too, and of starvation.
  • Extract from : « Making Both Ends Meet » by Sue Ainslie Clark and Edith Wyatt
  • Exhaustion of the air means, in this connexion, depletion of the oxygen normally present in it.
  • Extract from : « Acetylene, The Principles Of Its Generation And Use » by F. H. Leeds
  • After depletion, he says, opium should be given at once: "two or three grains may be given in urgent cases."
  • Extract from : « A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II » by Various
  • The system suffers a certain degree of depletion from which it recovers only after hours or even days.
  • Extract from : « The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction » by Winfield S. Hall
  • If emissions are too frequent for the individual case, they are followed by depletion and malaise.
  • Extract from : « The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction » by Winfield S. Hall
  • For the moment she was benumbed, out-wearied with effort and enervated by the strain and depletion of force.
  • Extract from : « Eden » by Edgar Saltus

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