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Depletion

The act of depleting or emptying.

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Consumption 76% connected

The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.

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Drain 76% connected

To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.

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Exhaustion 76% connected

The act of draining out or draining off; the act of emptying completely of the contents.

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Expenditure 76% connected

The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement.

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Decrease 76% connected

To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as…

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Diminution 76% connected

The act of diminishing, or of making or becoming less; state of being diminished; reduction in size, quantity, or degree; -- opposed to augmentation…

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Reduction 76% connected

The act of reducing, or state of being reduced; conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the reduction of a body to powder…

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biomass noun · 78% connection

plant materials and animal waste used as fuel

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Coal noun · 78% connection

a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering

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Coal oil noun · 78% connection

a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters

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Efficiency noun · 78% connection

skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort; "she did the work with great efficiency"

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Ember noun · 78% connection

a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering

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Energy noun · 78% connection

a healthy capacity for vigorous activity; "jogging works off my excess energy"; "he seemed full of vim and vigor"

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Fossil noun · 78% connection

the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil

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Fossil fuel noun · 78% connection

fuel consisting of the remains of organisms preserved in rocks in the earth's crust with high carbon and hydrogen content

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Fuel verb · 78% connection

provide with a combustible substance that provides energy; "fuel aircraft, ships, and cars"

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Gas noun · 78% connection

a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely

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Geothermal adjective · 78% connection

of or relating to the heat in the interior of the earth

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Geothermal energy noun · 78% connection

energy derived from the heat in the interior of the earth

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Geothermic adjective · 78% connection

of or relating to the heat in the interior of the earth

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Kerosene noun · 78% connection

a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters

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Kerosine noun · 78% connection

a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters

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Lamp oil noun · 78% connection

a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters

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Natural adjective · 78% connection

in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature; "a very natural development"; "our natural environment"; "natural science…

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Natural gas noun · 78% connection

a fossil fuel in the gaseous state; used for cooking and heating homes

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Drainage noun · 78% connection

emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it

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Draw verb · 78% connection

To drain by emptying; to suck dry.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depleting, emptying.
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Evacuant adjective · 78% connection

Emptying; evacuative; purgative; cathartic.

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Evacuation noun · 78% connection

The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging.

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Exinanition noun · 78% connection

An emptying; an enfeebling; exhaustion; humiliation.

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Nightman noun · 78% connection

One whose business is emptying privies by night.

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Penstock noun · 78% connection

A close conduit or pipe for conducting water, as, to a water wheel, or for emptying a pond, or for domestic uses.

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River noun · 78% connection

A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger tha…

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Vacuation noun · 78% connection

The act of emptying; evacuation.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depleting, emptying.
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Voidance noun · 78% connection

The act of voiding, emptying, ejecting, or evacuating.

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Depleting p. pr. & vb. n. · 72% connection

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