depleting
Example Sentences
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The loss of feathers is probably due to the depluming mite.
From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James)
For he saw that the heron was dead, and the peregrines had already commenced depluming it.
From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne