Depletion

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Depletion \De*ple"tion\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]pl['e]tion.]
     1. The act of depleting or emptying.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Med.) the act or process of diminishing the quantity of
        fluid in the vessels by bloodletting or otherwise; also


        excessive evacuation, as in severe diarrhea.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  depletion
       n 1: the act of decreasing something markedly
       2: the state of being depleted

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  75 Moby Thesaurus words for "depletion":
     ablation, absorption, assimilation, attrition, burning up,
     cleaning out, clearance, clearing, consumption, corrosion,
     curtailment, cut, cutting, decrease, decrement, defecation,
     deliquescence, depreciation, derogation, detraction, digestion,
     diminution, dip, discharging cargo, disparagement, dissipation,
     dissolution, drain, drainage, draining, eating up, egress,
     elimination, emptying, erosion, evacuation, evaporation, excretion,
     exhausting, exhaustion, expending, expenditure, extraction,
     finishing, impairment, impoverishment, ingestion, leakage,
     lessening, loss, off-loading, reduction, remission, removal,
     retraction, retrenchment, shortening, shrinkage, spending,
     squandering, truncation, unloading, using, using up, venting,
     voidance, voiding, wastage, waste, wastefulness, wasting away,
     wear and tear, wearing, wearing away, wearing down