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deplete
v : use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" [syn: consume, eat up, use up, eat, exhaust, run through, wipe out]
Synonyms: deplete, drain, exhaust, impoverish, enervate
These verbs all mean to weaken severely by removing something essential.
Deplete refers to using up gradually and only hints at harmful consequences: The campers' food supply was quickly depleted.
Drain suggests gradual drawing off and harm: War often drains a nation's economy.
Exhaust stresses reduction to a point of uselessness: “The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted” (William Ewart Gladstone).
Impoverish refers to severe reduction of resources or essential qualities: “His death has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure” (Samuel Johnson).
Enervate refers to weakening or destruction of vitality or strength: Idleness enervates the will to succeed.
<비교> plet(= fill,full)
replete
adj 1: filled to satisfaction with food or drink; "a full stomach" [syn: full, replete(p)]
2: (followed by `with')deeply filled or permeated; "imbued with the spirit of the Reformation"; "words instinct with love"; "it is replete with misery" [syn: instinct(p), replete(p)]
v : fill to satisfaction; "I am sated" [syn: satiate, sate, fill]
첫댓글 deplete 다 써버리다
다 써버리다, 고갈시키다
de(opposite)+plet(fill) -> 채우다의 반대 -> 소모시키다, 다 써버리다.