depleting

Definitions

The act of using up the supply or resources of something.

Diminishing in quantity, content, power, or value.

Examples

The constant demand for electricity is rapidly depleting the region's natural energy reserves.

Intense farming practices are depleting the soil of essential nutrients over time.

Synonyms

draining exhausting consuming spending weakening diminishing reducing

Antonyms

restoring replenishing increasing filling augmenting strengthening expanding