depletion

épuisement

Diminution d'une réserve à mesure qu'on l'utilise.

En anglais simple : The process of reducing a supply of something by using it up.

• The report warns of resource depletion.
• Heavy farming caused the depletion of soil nutrients.
• Scientists measured the depletion of the ozone layer.

Comment l'utiliser : depletion of something (The drought caused a depletion of water supplies.)

Synonymes : exhaustion, reduction

Contraires : replenishment

Expressions courantes : depletion of resources, ozone depletion, rapid depletion