| 单词 | deplete |
| 释义 | de·plete 1. < a body depleted by excessive blood loss > < tissues depleted of vitamins > 2. < army, crumbled in morale and depleted by wholesale desertion — American Guide Series: Tennessee > < the house whose air was lifeless and depleted — Ethel Wilson > < sick and depleted children — Robert Payne > < leaves depleted of starch — Experiment Station Record > Synonyms: < cattle herds depleted by the heavy slaughter last year — Time > < under conditions of sustained or repeated injury the body may be so depleted that it no longer can withstand infection and new stresses — W.K.Livingston > < has not the soil been depleted of its riches? — G.R.Stewart > drain implies a gradual depletion and ultimate deprivation in force, or vigor, or in elements that provide it < the summer had drained the last reserve of her strength — Ellen Glasgow > < a burden of arms draining the wealth and the labor of all peoples — D.D.Eisenhower > < excesses drained the last element of decency from him > exhaust stresses the total loss of force or vigor or of elements that provide it < cultivated ground is exhausted after only two or three harvests and a new plot must then be cleared — C.D.Forde > < evidently the old ideas had been exhausted and the time was ripe for new ideologies and a new order — R.W.Murray > < a person exhausted by constant worry > impoverish implies a depletion or a draining of what is essential to richness or productiveness < alleging that mechanization helps to impoverish the soil and thus to reduce the output of crops or animal products — Farmer's Weekly (South Africa) > < ignorance of the Bible, of mythology, and of ancient literature in general impoverishes our understanding of much of the poetry of the past — C.S.Kilby > < an impoverished imagination > bankrupt implies total impoverishment or total loss of effectiveness < astronomical sums of time are so great that they bankrupt the imagination — D.C.Peattie > < bankrupt a creative power by constant hack work > |
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