Deplete vs Deduct - What's the difference?
deplete | deduct |
To empty or unload, as the vessels of the human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.
To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc.
* 2007 . Zerzan, John. Silence .
As verbs the difference between deplete and deduct
is that deplete is to empty or unload, as the vessels of the human system, by bloodletting or by medicine while deduct is to take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller by some amount.deplete
English
Verb
(deplet)- Its reserves have been invaded and depleted .