Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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deplete

UK /dɪˈpliːt/ · US /dɪˈplit/ verb

Forms depletes depleting depleted

  1. verb (transitive) To reduce the amount of; to remove (a substance from something): “The winter storm quickly depleted the salt supply of the county.”
  2. verb (chemistry) To expend or separate a reactant.
  3. verb (medicine) To reduce the amount of a substance with a medication or medical procedure or due to a illness. “Certain medications can deplete vitamin D.”
  4. verb To use up, exhaust, or consume (power or resources).
  5. verb (physics, rare) To decrease the amount of an isotope (in a mixture of isotopes).
  6. verb (transitive) To empty or purge (something of a substance). “The conservation project depleted the lake of algae.”
  7. verb (chemistry) To clear a compound or solution (of a reactant).
  8. verb (physics) To clear a mixture of isotopes (of an isotope or isotopes).

Synonyms

consume eat up use up eat exhaust run through wipe out

Antonyms

enrich replenish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēplētus (“empty”), from depleō. First attested in 1716; originally a medical term.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine. Copland.
  2. verb 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.

Etymology [From L. deplere to empty out; de- + plere to fill. Forined like replete, complete. See Fill, Full, a.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “deplete”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details