Minimize vs Deplete - What's the difference?
minimize | deplete |
To make (something) as small or as insignificant as possible.
(computing, transitive, graphical user interface) To remove (a window) from the main display area, collapsing it to an icon or caption.
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 minimize and deplete
is that minimize is to make (something) as small or as insignificant as possible while deplete is to empty or unload, as the vessels of the human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.minimize
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Alternative forms
* (l) (non-Oxford British spelling)Verb
(minimiz)- I didn't close anything, but I minimized all the windows so I could see the desktop.
deplete
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Verb
(deplet)- Its reserves have been invaded and depleted .