| 1 | The act or process of depleting. | |
| 2 | Her tattered clothes in no way detracted from her beauty. | |
| 3 | Rising costs were eating up most of the profits. | |
| 4 | Yet this does not detract from the fact that Mandarin has been the dominant dialect of Chinese for many hundreds of years. | |
| 5 | Everyone is born a genius but the process of life deludes that genius. |