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- Dictionaryimpoverishment/ɪmˈpɒv(ə)rɪʃm(ə)nt/
noun
- 1. the process of becoming poor; loss of wealth: "fifteen years of political instability resulted in widespread impoverishment and famine"
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IMPOVERISHMENT definition: 1. the condition of being or becoming very poor, or the act of making someone very poor: 2. the…. Learn more.
the condition of being or becoming very poor, or the act of making someone very poor: The drought reduced many farmers to impoverishment. Progress has meant continued impoverishment and a growing contrast between the wealth of the few and the poverty of the many. [ U or S ] the act or result of making something weaker or worse in quality:
to make someone very poor: The new law is likely to further impoverish single parents. He was made to pay a ruinous fine that impoverished his family. to make something weaker or worse in quality: Excessive farming had impoverished the soil. Our cultural heritage would be impoverished by the absence of Mozart. See. impoverished. Fewer examples.
to make poor; to deprive of strength, richness, or fertility by depleting or draining of something essential… See the full definition
Impoverishment is the state or fact of being extremely poor. A neighborhood's impoverishment is sometimes obvious from its many abandoned buildings.
Impoverishment is the state or process of being impoverished. ...a meeting of experts on how the impoverishment of Africa can be reversed. National isolation can only cause economic and cultural impoverishment.
im·pov·er·ish. (ĭm-pŏv′ər-ĭsh, -pŏv′rĭsh) tr.v. im·pov·er·ished, im·pov·er·ish·ing, im·pov·er·ish·es. 1. To reduce to poverty; make poor. 2. To deprive of richness or strength: impoverish the soil by overuse.
Other forms: impoverished; impoverishing; impoverishes. To impoverish is to take away a person's livelihood. When a drought ruins a farmer's crop and he has nothing to harvest, his bad luck may leave him and his family impoverished, or poor.
the act of making something worse in quality; the state of being poor in quality. Definition of impoverishment noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
noun. The action of impoverishing someone. Wiktionary. The state of being impoverished. Wiktionary. Synonyms: poorness. poverty. pauperisation. pauperization. enervation. devitalization. depletion. debilitation. attenuation. enfeeblement. want. privation. penury. penuriousness. pennilessness. Antonyms: wealth. Other Word Forms of Impoverishment.
