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Depleting vs Diminishing - What's the difference?

depleting | diminishing |

As verbs the difference between depleting and diminishing

is that depleting is present participle of deplete while diminishing is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective diminishing is

becoming smaller.

As a noun diminishing is

a diminishment.

depleting

English

Verb

(head)

    • diminishing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • becoming smaller

    • Derived terms

    * law of diminishing returns

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A diminishment.