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Draining
Answer for the clue "Draining ", 9 letters:
depleting
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of deplete English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deplete \De*plete"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Depleted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Depleting .] [From L. deplere to empty out; de- + plere to fill. Forined like replete, complete. See Fill , Full , a.] (Med.) To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting ...
Usage examples of depleting.
The means the Galenist employed were chiefly diet and vegetable remedies, with the use of the lancet and other depleting agents.
These masters of the art of healing were once as ready with their answers as you are now, but they have got rid of a great deal of the less immediately practical part of their acquisitions, and you must undergo the same depleting process.
The console had been updated, quite likely to compensate for Siglen's depleting energies.
Only I cannot get it out of my mind that the Sodan is deliberately depleting Damia `5 energy to reduce her ability to defend herself.
He is slowly depleting your strength so that he is free to attack this system.
There had been in those days so many beaver that a hungry Indian or a lone trapper could take what he needed without depleting the stock, and all had prospered.
Two feet deep, easy on the plow, and so fertile that it needed less than normal manuring, this extraordinary soil was unequaled and constituted an agricultural treasure which the serfs of the area had mined for the past thousand years without depleting it.
Not only are present demands on it depleting, future demands threaten to exhaust it.
But for him it would have meant a great effort, depleting his resources for days.
Where they could be again, if the Citizens ever developed the interest to restore the planet instead of depleting it.
Only I cannot get it out of my mind that the Sodan is deliberately depleting Damia '5 energy to reduce her ability to defend herself.