Depletado

Depletado is a Spanish adjective that describes something that has been depleted, exhausted, or reduced to a minimal level. It is the past participle of the verb depletar, a term used mainly in technical or scientific writing. The closest English equivalent is depleted. In everyday language, more common terms for this meaning are agotado or agotamiento, but depletado appears in specialized contexts.

The word is widely used in discussions of natural resources, energy, and environmental planning. It refers to reserves or stocks that have diminished due to extraction, consumption, or degradation. Examples include depletado oil or gas reserves after sustained production, and depletado groundwater resources resulting from overuse. In economics and finance, it can describe capital, inventories, or other assets that have declined, limiting future production or distribution.

In other domains, depletado appears in computing and biology to indicate exhaustion of a resource or component. In information technology, a system may report that memory or bandwidth is depletado when no units remain available for allocation. In biological contexts, depletion refers to a reduction in cells, nutrients, or other essential elements, with depletado used to describe the affected state or samples.

Linguistically, depletado coexists with terms like agotado and agotamiento, which are often preferred in common usage. The noun depleción exists in technical language to denote the process of depletion, while depletar as a verb is more common in neologistic or specialized registers. The term remains primarily within scientific, engineering, and policy-oriented texts.