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depleting

CEFR: C1

Severely reducing the fullness, quantity, or available supply of vital natural or financial resources.

Synonyms

exhausting
draining

Common Collocations

depleting resources
depleting reserves
rapidly depleting

Example Sentence

Over-extraction of groundwater is rapidly depleting subterranean aquifers across arid agricultural regions.

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