🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

esgotamento

Pronunciation / Transliteration: esgotamento

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Depletion/dɪˈpliːʃən/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O esgotamento da camada de ozônio é preocupante."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The reduction in the number or quantity of something.

    "The rapid depletion of natural resources is a major global concern."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Early 17th century: from Latin depletion- 'emptying out', from the verb deplere, from de- 'down, away' + plere 'fill'.

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