depleting (verb)

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• deplete — transitive verb (depleted; depleting) Etymology: Latin depletus, past participle of deplēre, from de + plēre to fill more at full Date: 1807 1. to empty of a principal substance 2. to lessen markedly in quantity …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• impoverish — transitive verb Etymology: Middle English enpoverisshen, from Anglo French empoveriss , stem of empoverir, from en + povre poor more at poor Date: 15th century 1. to make poor 2. to deprive of strength, richness, or fertility by depleting or… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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• leave — 1. verb /liːv/ a) To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely. I left my car at home and took a bus to work …   Wiktionary

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• deplete — [[t]dɪpli͟ːt[/t]] depletes, depleting, depleted VERB To deplete a stock or amount of something means to reduce it. [FORMAL] [V n] ...substances that deplete the ozone layer... [V n] They fired in long bursts, which depleted their ammunition... [V …   English dictionary

• sit by — PHRASAL VERB If you sit by while something wrong or illegal is happening, you allow it to happen and do not do anything about it. [V P] We can t just sit by and watch you throw your life away... [V P] The use of ozone depleting chemicals grew… …   English dictionary

• deplete — UK [dɪˈpliːt] / US [dɪˈplɪt] verb [transitive] Word forms deplete : present tense I/you/we/they deplete he/she/it depletes present participle depleting past tense depleted past participle depleted to reduce the amount of something or the number… …   English dictionary

• deplete — /dəˈplit / (say duh pleet) verb (t) (depleted, depleting) to deprive of that which fills; decrease the fullness of; reduce the stock or amount of. {Latin dēplētus, past participle, emptied out} –depletion, noun –depletive, depletory /dəˈplitəri/… …  

• o|ver|fish — «OH vuhr FIHSH», intransitive verb. to catch fish faster than they can reproduce, thereby gradually depleting the fisheries. –v.t. to deplete (a fishery or a kind of fish) by excessive fishing: »Many of the area s salmon fisheries [ar] overfished …   Useful english dictionary