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The poorer a country's people are, the greater the temptation to deplete the country's forests and fisheries.deplete = use up without replacement
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Our bottles and skin are fairly full, but with two drinking and this hot sun it won't take long to deplete them. (source)deplete = use up
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A woman with a giant ozone-depleting hairdo bobbed her head to an oversize Walkman. (source)depleting = reducing
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His problem was that black paint was normally used more as a mixer, to darken other colors, and it was soon depleted and hard to find. (source)depleted = use up without having been replaced
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Louie was disturbed to see how the years of worry had depleted his brother. (source)depleted = drained (of energy)
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…which is preferable — to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the pressure of them, or to have them sucked out of you, every paragraph, every sentence, every word of them, so at the end you're depleted of all that was once as precious to you as… (source)depleted = drained
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No one in the cabins (as far as he could tell) had ever done more than scratch their heads at their depleted larder. (source)depleted = used up without having been replaced
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I think we found the answer to our problems for the ozone layer depletion," Alex teases.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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It had become, in a very real way, a wealthy home, even though Morrie's bank account was rapidly depleting. (source)depleting = being used up
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I'm dying to drink the rest, but I can't deplete his supply, too.† (source)deplete = use up without replacement
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No unusual energy emissions or depletions.† (source)
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After each meal Marilla carried a well-filled tray to the east gable and brought it down later on not noticeably depleted. (source)depleted = used up
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Stage one is when there's a mild depletion of cells.† (source)
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He doesn't like depleting the stockpile.† (source)
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Hannah's claims are acceptable in her neighborhood because they are nonfinancial and nonthreatening; she does not disturb or deplete family resources.† (source)deplete = use up without replacement
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The Metropol's larder was depleted bushel by bushel, pound by pound, dash by dash, and its chef was left to meet the expectations of his audience with cornmeal, cauliflower, and cabbage—that is to say, with whatever he could get his hands on.† (source)
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