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Webster 1913 Edition
Deplete
De-plete′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Depleted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Depleting
.] 1.
(Med.)
To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.
Copland.
2.
To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc.
Saturday Review.