consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out
(verb) use up (resources or materials); “this car consumes a lot of gas”; “We exhausted our savings”; “They run through 20 bottles of wine a week”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
deplete (third-person singular simple present depletes, present participle depleting, simple past and past participle depleted)
To empty or unload, as the vessels of the human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.
To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc.
• replenish
Source: Wiktionary
De*plete", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Depleted; p. pr. & vb. n. Depleting.] Etym: [From L. deplere to empty out; de- + plere to fill. Forined like replete, complete. See Fill, Full, a.]
1. (Med.)
Definition: To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine. Copland.
2. To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc. Saturday Review.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 January 2025
(noun) Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
