DEPLETED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does depleted mean? 

• DEPLETED (adjective)
  The adjective DEPLETED has 1 sense:

1. no longer sufficient

  Familiarity information: DEPLETED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPLETED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

No longer sufficient

Synonyms:

depleted; low

Context example:

our funds are depleted

Similar:

deficient; insufficient (of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement)

 Context examples 

Starting antiretroviral therapy (ART) right after HIV diagnosis did not prevent the depletion of CD4+ T cells from the gut or facilitate reconstitution of the depleted cells.

(Study links gut-homing protein levels with HIV infection risk, disease progression, National Institutes of Health)

A lymphocyte depleted Hodgkin lymphoma characterized by the presence of diffuse fibrosis and a few Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cells.

(Hodgkin's Disease, Lymphocyte Depletion, Diffuse Fibrosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Within a week, most of the infected macrophages had died and were removed from the area by immune cells, leaving a depleted stock of meningeal macrophages.

(Meningitis changes immune cell makeup in the mouse brain lining, National Institutes of Health)

These areas remained depleted of electrons for several days.

(Solar Storms Can Drain Electrical Charge Above Earth, NASA)

The results reveal that 45P is running so low on frozen carbon monoxide, that it is officially considered depleted.

(NASA Telescope Studies Quirky Comet 45P, NASA)

Most cases are morphologically classified as lymphocyte depleted or mixed cellularity Hodgkin lymphomas.

(AIDS-Related Hodgkin Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A lymphocyte depleted Hodgkin lymphoma characterized by the presence of reticular fibrosis.

(Hodgkin's Disease, Lymphocyte Depletion, Reticular, NCI Thesaurus)

Gamma rays are very penetrating and are best stopped or shielded by dense materials, such as lead or depleted uranium.

(Gamma Radiation, NCI Thesaurus)

Reduced or depleted levels of alpha2-antiplamin can result in severe bleeding disorders.

(Fibrinolysis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Precancerous dysplastic lesions depleted of mucin in the colonic mucosa of the mouse.

(Mucin-Depleted Foci of the Mouse Intestinal Tract, NCI Thesaurus)