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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Becoming and making smaller or less
abridgment
attenuate
attenuated
attenuating
attenuation
compress
contraction
damp
dwindling
ease
ease someone's mindidiom
ease up/off
fall away
reducible
reduction
resize
retreat
rightsize
telescope
tumble

Examples of depleting

depleting

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

These will help in improving waste management and will also supplement the depleting renewable energy sources.
This was to address concerns that elephant population increase adversely affects other species through depleting their food in key areas close to permanent water.
They concede the impact of the gold-rushes arguing that 'the effect of the gold-rushes should not be underestimated in depleting sources of labour' (p. 208).
As expected, plantation crops, especially tree crops, are less depleting than annual crops, which are also given a chapter.
It may also be that collisions have the effect of depleting ion angular momentum, thus increasing the ion current, and reducing the equilibrium potential.
Depleting a stock of a non-renewable resource does not change the economy's instantaneous net productive capacity.
Attempts a t modulating this rejection process have therefore targeted this so-called direct pathway of antigen recognition, by depleting the passenger leukocytes in the graft.
It could operate up to 45 min before depleting the energy stored in the batteries.
A system of reservoirs was constructed near large building complexes, and a low-gradient, shallow spillway canal drained excess water without depleting the water storage.
Mindful, perhaps, of how urban consumption was depleting the passenger pigeon population, others emphasized the bird's culinary merits as an incentive.
The concerns that elephant population increase could result in them depleting food for impala, kudu and giraffe thus, negatively affecting their population is not supported by this study.
Freud was correct, then, that grief and loss do empty us for a time, depleting us in waves and paroxysms.
Inner-city youth are deemed successful when they leave the neighbourhood, further depleting the community of valuable resources.
As we have seen, this body of early and mid-nineteenth-century disciplinary doctrine was itself related to atmospheric and climatic, and particularly oxygen producing and depleting processes.
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