dē-plĕo — Lewis & Short
dē-plĕo, ēvi, 2,
I v. a., to empty out, to draw off (very rare):
oleum,Cato R. R. 64 fin.; Col. 12, 50, 8, and 10:
sanguinem,to let blood, to bleed, Plin. 18, 16, 43, § 148;
for which, d. animal,Veg. A. V. 1, 13, 4.— Poet., to exhaust, haustu fontes, Stat. Ach. 1, 8:
vitam querelis,Manil. 4, 13.