Depletes [verb]
Definition of Depletes:
consume, exhaust supply
Synonyms of Depletes:
● Drain
● Bankrupt
● Lessen
● Reduce
● Expend
● Squander
● Decrease
● Empty
● Diminish
● Sap
● Weaken
● Draw
● Finish
● Milk
● Evacuate
● Bleed
● Waste
● Spend
● Use up
● Dig into
● Dry up
● Suck dry
● Wash up
Opposite/Antonyms of Depletes:
● Give
● Add
● Develop
● Save
● Expand
● Raise
● Extend
● Fill
● Augment
● Hoard
● Create
● Grow
● Increase
● Enlarge
Sentence/Example of Depletes:
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.
Dr. Mitchell puts it well when he says that muscular exercise flushes the parts engaged in it, and so depletes the brain.