Deplete
(verb)
- To reduce something greatly in amount or quantity.
- To use up a resource completely.
Origin:
Late middle english: from latin deplere "fill up, exhaust", from de- "completely" + plere "to fill".
Examples:
- The drought depleted the water supply.
- The war depleted the population.
- The company's resources were depleted by the project.
- The fire depleted the forest.
- The disease depleted the number of fish in the lake.