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   impoverish

   /ɪmˈpɒv(ə)rɪʃ/

   verb

   • 1. make (a person or area) poor: "the wars had impoverished him" Similar make poormake pennilessreduce to penuryreduce to destitutionbring to ruinbring someone to their kneesbankruptruinmake insolventwipe outclean outbreakcripplerare:pauperizebeggarOpposite make wealthy
   • ▪ exhaust the strength or vitality of: "the soil was impoverished by annual burning" Similar weakensapexhaustdrainemptydiminishdepleteenervatesuck dryinformal:bleedOpposite strengthenenrich

   Word Origin late Middle English (formerly also as empoverish): from Old French empoveriss-, lengthened stem of empoverir, based on povre ‘poor’.

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   What does impoverish mean?

   • Get a quick, free translation! IMPOVERISH definition: 1. to make someone very poor: 2. to make something weaker or worse in quality: 3. to make someone…. Learn more.

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   What does it mean if something impoverishes a person or a country?

   • Something that impoverishes a person or a country makes them poor. We need to reduce the burden of taxes that impoverish the economy. [VERB noun] ...a society impoverished by wartime inflation. [VERB-ed] ...an attempt to lure businesses into impoverished areas. A person or thing that impoverishes something makes it worse in quality.

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   Is an object impoverished?

   • An object is impoverished insofar as it is not plentiful. This dichotomy, however, is too impoverished for a full understanding of the ways processes (and indeed outcomes) may be valued. But the metropolitanists never mastered the post-depression forces that impoverished the urban core and promoted urban sprawl.

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   Does giving impoverish a woman?

   • Giving does not impoverish either her ample purse or her generous heart. Father Castel was a madman, but a good man upon the whole; he was sorry to see me thus impoverish myself to no purpose. Spanish policy had devised a still more ingenious contrivance gradually to impoverish the richest families of the land.

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   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.

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