impoverished
Use Impoverished in a sentence
ər adjective
1.
reduced to poverty.
2.
(of a country, area, etc.) having few trees, flowers, birds, wild animals, etc.
3.
deprived of strength, vitality, creativeness, etc.: an impoverished attempt at humor.
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verb (used with object)
1.
to reduce to poverty: a country impoverished by war.
2.
to make poor in quality, productiveness, etc.; exhaust the strength or richness of: Bad farming practices impoverished the soil.
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impoverish (ɪmˈpɒvərɪʃ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to make poor or diminish the quality of: to impoverish society by cutting the grant to the arts |
| 2. | to deprive (soil, etc) of fertility |
| [C15: from Old French empovrir, from povre | |
| im'poverisher | |
| —n | |
| im'poverishment | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
Even among impoverished populations, the ones that are miserable tend to be those with a few ultra-rich people among lots of poor.
He leaves behind a country that is rich in cash and resources, but socially fragmented and intellectually impoverished.
As some have pointed out in this thread, government corruption runs rampant in many impoverished nations.
And the remaining vegetation would regress to a far simpler, impoverished condition.
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