depletion

US /dɪˈpliː.ʃən/

UK /dɪˈpliː.ʃən/

1.

reduction in the number or quantity of something.

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the depletion of the ozone layer

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exhaustion use consumption expending expenditure draining emptying sapping milking reduction decrease dwindling diminution lessening lowering attenuation impoverishment bleeding

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augmentation

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deplete depleted uranium