1. use up the supply or resources of: "reservoirs have been depleted by years of drought"
▪ diminish in number or quantity:"supplies are depleting fast"
Word Originearly 19th century (earlier (mid. 17th century) as depletion): from Latin deplet- ‘emptied out’, from the verb deplere, from de- (expressing reversal) + plere ‘fill’ (from plenus ‘full’).
