depleted

Thân thiện

Our emergency food supplies are now depleted.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • No longer sufficient; exhausted, used up: Describes something that has been greatly reduced in quantity or strength, often to the point where there is not enough left for its intended purpose.
   • Drained of a vital substance or quality: Can describe resources, energy, or abstract qualities that have been consumed or diminished.

Usage and Examples

• Adjective:
  • The depleted battery needed to be recharged. (The battery's energy was completely used up.)
  • After the long drought, the reservoir was severely depleted. (The water in the reservoir was greatly reduced and no longer sufficient.)
  • The team played with depleted energy in the final minutes. (The team's strength was exhausted.)

Advanced Usage

• "to feel depleted": to feel completely drained of energy or vitality.
  • After working three consecutive night shifts, she felt utterly depleted.
• In environmental/technical contexts: Often used to describe non-renewable resources or specific chemical/biological states.
  • The ozone layer over the region is dangerously depleted.
  • The soil in the over-farmed area is nutrient-depleted.

Variants and Related Words

• Deplete (verb): To use up the supply or resources of; to exhaust.
  • The long war depleted the nation's treasury.
• Depletion (noun): The act or process of depleting, or the state of being depleted.
  • The depletion of the fish stocks is a major concern.

Synonyms

• Exhausted: Completely used up.
• Drained: Emptied of contents or energy.
• Diminished: Made smaller or less.
• Spent: Used up; consumed.

Antonyms

• Full: Containing as much as possible.
• Abundant: Existing in large quantities.
• Replenished: Filled up again.
• Rich: Plentifully supplied.

Related Phrases and Collocations

• Depleted reserves: Stockpiles that have been used up.
  • The country had to tap into its depleted reserves of foreign currency.
• Depleted uranium: A specific technical term for uranium with a reduced content of the fissile isotope U-235.
  • Depleted uranium is used in armor-piercing ammunition.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. no longer sufficient
   • supplies are low
   • our funds are depleted

Từ đồng nghĩa

• low