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3 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Depletion \De*ple"tion\, noun [Cf. F. d['e]pl['e]tion.]
1. The act of depleting or emptying.
2. (Med.) the act or process of diminishing the quantity of
fluid in the vessels by bloodletting or otherwise; also
excessive evacuation, as in severe diarrhea.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
depletion
noun
1: the act of decreasing something markedly
2: the state of being depleted
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
75 Moby Thesaurus words for "depletion":
ablation, absorption, assimilation, attrition, burning up,
cleaning out, clearance, clearing, consumption, corrosion,
curtailment, cut, cutting, decrease, decrement, defecation,
deliquescence, depreciation, derogation, detraction, digestion,
diminution, dip, discharging cargo, disparagement, dissipation,
dissolution, drain, drainage, draining, eating up, egress,
elimination, emptying, erosion, evacuation, evaporation, excretion,
exhausting, exhaustion, expending, expenditure, extraction,
finishing, impairment, impoverishment, ingestion, leakage,
lessening, loss, off-loading, reduction, remission, removal,
retraction, retrenchment, shortening, shrinkage, spending,
squandering, truncation, unloading, using, using up, venting,
voidance, voiding, wastage, waste, wastefulness, wasting away,
wear and tear, wearing, wearing away, wearing down
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