depleted

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de·plet·ed

(dĭ-plē′tĭd)

adj.

1. Extremely tired; exhausted or worn out.

2. Relating to or being uranium whose fissionable isotope uranium 235 has been mostly removed, consisting primarily of the remaining isotope uranium 238.

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depleted

(dɪˈpliːtɪd)

adj

reduced or exhausted

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Adj.

depleted - no longer sufficient; "supplies are low"; "our funds are depleted"

low

insufficient, deficient - of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement; "insufficient funds"

depleted

adjective used (up), drained, exhausted, consumed, spent, reduced, emptied, weakened, decreased, lessened, worn out, depreciated depleted resources

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depleted

[dɪˈpliːtɪd] adj → diminuito/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

depleted

a. agotado-a, vaciado-a, depauperado-a.

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Several of the craft were limping perceptibly, and seemed but barely under the control of their depleted crews.

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By the time the depleted regiment had again reached the first open space they were receiving a fast and merciless fire.

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Mugambi pushed his mistress back into the greater security of the interior, and with his depleted force prepared to make a last stand against the foe.

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Their rescue by the English tug was entirely probable; the capture of the enemy U-33 by the tug's crew was not beyond the range of possibility; and their adventures during the perilous cruise which the treachery and deceit of Benson extended until they found themselves in the waters of the far South Pacific with depleted stores and poisoned water-casks, while bordering upon the fantastic, appeared logical enough as narrated, event by event, in the manuscript.

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I saw the depleted gun-crew on the submarine fire their piece and I felt the shock of impact and heard the loud explosion as the shell struck and exploded in our bows.

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Not alone was his capital depleted by the amount of her value, but her earnings were no longer to be reckoned on, and it was her earnings that largely paid the running expenses of the plantation.

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After each meal Marilla carried a well-filled tray to the east gable and brought it down later on not noticeably depleted. Matthew eyed its last descent with a troubled eye.

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how cruelly the dice, beer-pots, and Venus have depleted thee!

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And, as though to add to the daily misery which this prosperous canal inflicted on the unfortunate inn-keeper, whose utter ruin it was fast accomplishing, it was situated between the Rhone from which it had its source and the post-road it had depleted, not a hundred steps from the inn, of which we have given a brief but faithful description.

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A depleted bank account had caused me to postpone my holiday, and as to my companion, neither the country nor the sea presented the slightest attraction to him.

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He pointed his polished walking-stick at the window, recently depleted by the bridal preparations of Mr.