Definition of impoverish Impoverish
/ɪmpɑˈvɹɪʃ/ - [impavrish] - im•pov•er•ish
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| impoverish - make poor | ||
| enrich make better or improve in quality; "The experience enriched her understanding"; "enriched foods" | ||
| deprive take away | ||
| reduce take off weight | ||
| pauperise, pauperize, beggar reduce to beggary | ||
| bankrupt, ruin, smash, break reduce to bankruptcy; "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!"; "The slump in the financial markets smashed him" | ||
| impoverish - take away | ||
| deprive | ||
| enrich make better or improve in quality; "The experience enriched her understanding"; "enriched foods" | ||
| worsen, decline grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened" | ||
| disestablish deprive (an established church) of its status | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- impoverish (v. t.)
To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families. - impoverish (v. t.)
To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land.
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impoverish
To become poor or poorer. -
impoverish
To make poor.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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impoverish
im-pov′ėr-ish, v.t. to make poor: to exhaust the resources (as of a nation), or fertility (as of the soil).—n. Impov′erishment. [From O. Fr. empovrir (Fr. appauvrir)—L. in, in, pauper, poor.]
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🔤- impoverish, verb, present, 1st person singular of impoverish (infinitive).
- impoverish, verb (infinitive).
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