deplete

Other forms of deplete

past tense

depleted·

present participle

depleting·

third person

depletes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about deplete

What does deplete mean?

deplete means "use up (resources or materials)".

How many syllables are in deplete?

deplete has 2 syllables: de-plete. The stress falls on "plete". In IPA it is /dɪˈplit/.

What is another word for deplete?

Close synonyms include consume, eat up, use up, eat, exhaust. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is deplete a common word?

deplete is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with deplete?

5 words rhyme with deplete. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.