depletion
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5.3
- noun
- /dɪˈpliːʃən/
- Finally, both cotton and cassava caused considerable depletion of soil nutrients.
- ozone depletion
- stratospheric ozone depletion
- resource depletion
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Watch on YouTubeA great many people have tissue depletion, cellular depletion of zinc.
- A great many people have tissue depletion, cellular depletion of zinc.
- It's just the oestrogen depletion in your body.
- But the fundamental problem here isn't climate change and it isn't energy depletion.
- And it's a term from psychology that is being used a little bit more now, and it's ego depletion.
- Someone asked when you mentioned about the depletion of the soil and the decrease in calcium levels in kale.
- It wasn't red flags, but I was depleted after the encounter and I paid attention to that sense of depletion.
- This process can result in endless grief in these relationships and can also create even greater rumination, tension and depletion.
- Expands and then energy depletion and collapse.
- I mean, density depletion are density waves and these are sound waves.
- And moreover, these two animals remains abramic after NBOCDA depletion for a year.
- I am always monitoring my nervous system because I think that my depression started with depletion is my understanding of it now.
Examples
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Even so, algal blooms and oxygen depletion in the bay have a major economic impact on the region.
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Farmers are facing challenges due to the depletion of nutrients in the soil, affecting crop yields.
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Perhaps it's the push of climate change, air pollution, resource depletion, and national security.
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One factor that many people point to is depletion of the soils.
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So this is a picture of where there is some groundwater depletion worldwide.
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Our focus will be on the depletion of the ozone layer, global warming, and climate change.
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A famine represents both the failure of the current harvest and the depletion of food stores.
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Increased plant growth results in a depletion of oxygen in the water, which can stress or kill aquatic organisms.
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The Syrian economy is entering a crisis stage made worse by the depletion of the country's oil reserves.
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Is there evidence for stratospheric ozone depletion outside of the Antarctic region?
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
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1.3
A gradual reduction in amount or size
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3.9
A gradual loss in amount, quality, or value
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2.2
A drop in amount or number
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5.1
A decrease in size, amount, or value
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6.8
A reduction in something harmful or unwanted
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6.7
A decrease in size, strength or importance
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3.3
Using something until nothing is left
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6.9
A fall in the value or amount of an investment
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5.2
A slow decrease in size, number, or strength
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5.5
Becoming smaller or less over time until almost gone
A fall in the total supply of a digital token when coins are burned
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Etymology
The word depletion comes from the Latin parts de- 'away' and -plete from a root meaning 'fill', the same root you see in complete and deplete. So depletion describes when something that was full is made smaller or 'used up'.