What part of speech is impoverished?

Impoverished can be categorized as a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. impoverished is a verb, past participle of impoverish (infinitive).
  • 2. impoverished is a verb, past simple of impoverish (infinitive).

Inflections

Verb

What does impoverished mean?

Definitions

Adjective

impoverished - poor enough to need help from others
impoverished - destroyed financially; "the broken fortunes of the family"

Verb

impoverish - make poor
impoverish - take away

Examples of impoverished

#   Sentence  
1. verb The war lasting for years impoverished the country.
2. verb As long as we consider only the growth of goods and ignore the growth of personal and community well-being, we will be impoverished by growth.
3. verb Words such as "aselway," "aselkim," "tayri," "adabu," and "amulli" are all derived from various Berber lexical roots that have never been attested in the now impoverished Kabyle dialect.
4. verb It's absolutely useless to deny the existence of the Berber language. In fact, words such as "aselway," "aselkim," "tayri," "adabu," and "amulli" are all derived from various Berber lexical roots that have never been attested in the now impoverished Kabyle dialect.
5. verb Her people, who were mainly impoverished immigrants from far away, had the habit of crying a lot, and not just with tears.
6. verb Recently "simplistic" is being used more and more often as a substitute for "simple." Such solecisms--presumably driven by a desire to appear learned--impoverish the language..
7. verb Recently "simplistic" is being used more and more often as a substitute for "simple." Such solecisms--presumably driven by a desire to appear learned--impoverish the language..
Sentence  
verb
The war lasting for years impoverished the country.
As long as we consider only the growth of goods and ignore the growth of personal and community well-being, we will be impoverished by growth.
Words such as "aselway," "aselkim," "tayri," "adabu," and "amulli" are all derived from various Berber lexical roots that have never been attested in the now impoverished Kabyle dialect.
It's absolutely useless to deny the existence of the Berber language. In fact, words such as "aselway," "aselkim," "tayri," "adabu," and "amulli" are all derived from various Berber lexical roots that have never been attested in the now impoverished Kabyle dialect.
Her people, who were mainly impoverished immigrants from far away, had the habit of crying a lot, and not just with tears.
Recently "simplistic" is being used more and more often as a substitute for "simple." Such solecisms--presumably driven by a desire to appear learned--impoverish the language..
Recently "simplistic" is being used more and more often as a substitute for "simple." Such solecisms--presumably driven by a desire to appear learned--impoverish the language..

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