deplete

英 [dɪ'pliːt] 美 [dɪ'pliːt]

• vt. 耗尽；使空竭

双解释义

v. (动词)

1. vt. 〈正〉使大大地减少；使空虚

   lessen greatly in amount,contents,etc.

详尽释义

v. 动词

1. 使减少，使贫乏，消耗，损耗，耗尽，耗竭，用尽
2. 弄耗尽…的资源、资金、精力等，使枯竭
3. 【医】减液，放血
4. 使衰竭
5. 使空虚
6. 把弄空
7. 【核物理学】使贫化

英英释义

Verb:

1. 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"
   

例句

用作及物动词 (vt.)

1. Our stock of food is greatly depleted.
   我们的食物储备已消耗殆尽。
2. Mankind must take care not to deplete the earth of its natural resources.
   人类必须注意，切莫耗尽地球上的自然资源。
3. Wars in the region have depleted the country's food supplies.
   这个地区的战争使国家的粮食供应空乏。
4. This expense has depleted our funds.
   这笔花费已使我们的资金所剩无几。

常见句型

用作动词 (v.)

用作及物动词

S+ ～+n./pron.

1. Our supplies of food are rather depleted.
   我们的食品供应大大地减少了。

经典引文

• As..higher grade..mineral resources are depleted, the costs of extraction..go up.

  出自： A. E. Stevenson

• This royal family had recently been depleted by two deaths.

  出自： A. Fraser

• I was feeling utterly depleted and drained.

  出自： V. Ackland

词汇搭配

• deplete of 弄空
• depleted uranium 贫化铀

近反义词

【近义词】

• lessen 减少
• use up 用完
• eat up 吃光
• exhaust 使筋疲力尽
• drain 排出
• diminish 减少
• run down 撞倒
• impoverish 使贫困
• deflate 放气
• eat 吃
• run through 跑着穿过
• consume 消耗
• wipe out 消灭

派生词

v.(动词)

• depletion n. 损耗，减少；弄空，耗尽