Definitions for depletes

depletes de·plete

Spelling: [dih-pleet]
IPA: /dɪˈplit/

Depletes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 181 anagrams from letters in depletes (deeelpst).

Definitions for depletes

verb (used with object)

  1. to decrease seriously or exhaust the abundance or supply of:

Origin of depletes

1800-10; Latin dēplētus empty (past participle of dēplēre to empty out), equivalent to dē- de- + plē(re) to fill + -tus past participle suffix

Examples for depletes

However, things like stress, illness, and environmental pollution all deplete your levels.

And now, the plan is not only to decimate public-sector unions, but all unions—to deplete the money they can spend on politics.

Even the German invasion at the beginning of the war failed to deplete this stock.

After the harvest was ended the father began to deplete his farm.

He does not deplete himself by drugs, rivalry, strife or anger.

To do this habitually is to so deplete the forces of the spirit that one has nothing left.

We had to deplete our ship's company again by putting a prize-crew on board.

We deplete the colony for what is in reality only a handful of men, while it means much to us.

Now to deplete is to check growth by abstracting the very source of nutriment.

It is only when a "giving out" is accompanied by a "looking in" that it can ever deplete.

Word Value for depletes
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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