Etymology

deplete

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Today it means: To reduce the amount of; to remove (a substance from something) Full definition →

Latin dēplētus
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  1. Latin · borrowed fromdēplētus“empty”
  2. English todaydeplete

Borrowed from Latin dēplētus (“empty”), from depleō. First attested in 1716; originally a medical term.

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