deplete
verb [transitive, usually passive, intransitive] (formal)- deplete (something)
to reduce something by a large amount so that there is not enough left; to be reduced by a large amount 大量減少;耗盡;使枯竭 Extra ExamplesIntensive fishing is depleting fish stocks in the North Sea. 密集捕撈正在耗盡北海的魚類資源。 CFCs were widely used compounds which depleted the earth's ozone layer. 含氯氟烴是廣泛使用的化合物,會耗盡地球的臭氧層。 Our cash reserves are being depleted at an alarming rate. 我們的現金儲備正以驚人的速度耗盡。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- seriously
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Word Originearly 19th cent.: from Latin deplet- ‘emptied out’, from the verb deplere, from de- (expressing reversal) + plere ‘fill’ (from plenus ‘full’).