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Cannot be replenished
Answer for the clue "Cannot be replenished ", 12 letters:
nonrenewable
Word definitions for nonrenewable in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Not able to be renewed; incapable of renewal. 2 With respect to a resource, unsustainable; not able to be regrown or renewed; not having an ongoing or continuous source of supply; finite. n. A resource that is not renewable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
nonrenewable \nonrenewable\ adj. That can not be renewed; as, a nonrenewable option; books on that shelf are nonrenewable. Opposite of renewable . Syn: unrenewable.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. that can not be renewed; "books on that shelf are unrenewable"; "gas and oil are nonrenewable resources" [syn: unrenewable ] [ant: renewable ]
Usage examples of nonrenewable.
To the men of the Ship, our planets were once disobedient fiefs, then nonrenewable resources.
I had to include in the terms of the charter a clause to offset the fact that her sails were a nonrenewable resource and I had my model in the type of contract which the petroleum corporations had negotiated in the days before the Chaos.
Metals and fossil fuels are nonrenewable, and the ability of Earth to absorb contaminants and by-products was already being strained by our present stable global population of 2,800,000,000.
World and its unique, nonrenewable deposits of Bose-Einstein condensates.
This is not the first time humanity has depended on a nonrenewable resource.
The work being done there was supposed to save us from our dependency on nonrenewable energy sources, replacing them with a limitless supply of clean, safe energy.
Ogger asked, hypothetically, whether Rom would ask a Ferengi to stop strip mining dilithium just because warp drives damage space and dilithium is a nonrenewable resource.
Alas, however, petroleum is a nonrenewable resource, and you are running out.
As an incentive, Leo, if he thought he could manage it, could stay on as a consultant for fifteen percent net over a nonrenewable three-year term.
Consider UIPS limitations in nonrenewable metals, minerals and other vital reserves until Slingshot begins to produce.
The insatiable appetite for metals, minerals, rare earths and other nonrenewable substances increased inexorably.
In time, reserves of nonrenewable resources dropped from residue to gleanings.
Net yields from nonrenewable reserves, residues and substitutes had dwindled until exhaustion was certain and a timeline predictable.
On the other hand, NSF grants to universities to connect their campuses to the regional network were always two-year, strictly nonrenewable grants.
Already we've seen the abandonment of various voluntary waste-emission guidelines, the closure of nature reserves, an upgraded search for sources of nonrenewable fuels, an extinction pulse among endangered species.