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impoverished
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Impoverished
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im·pov·er·ished
/
ɪmˈpɒv
ər
ɪʃt, -ˈpɒv
rɪʃt
/
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[
im-
pov
-er-isht, -
pov
-risht
]
Show IPA
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.
Origin:
1625–35;
impoverish
+
-ed
2
Related forms
un·im·pov·er·ished,
adjective
Synonyms
1.
See
poor
.
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im·pov·er·ish
/
ɪmˈpɒv
ər
ɪʃ, -ˈpɒv
rɪʃ
/
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[
im-
pov
-er-ish, -
pov
-rish
]
Show IPA
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.
Origin:
1400–50;
late Middle English
empoverishen
<
Middle French
empovriss-
(long stem of
empovrir
), equivalent to
em-
em-
1
+
povre
poor
+
-iss
-ish
2
Related forms
im·pov·er·ish·er,
noun
im·pov·er·ish·ment,
noun
Synonyms
2.
deplete, drain; weaken, enervate, fatigue, cripple.
Antonyms
1, 2.
enrich.
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World English Dictionary
impoverish
(ɪmˈpɒvərɪʃ)
—
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
poor
]
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.
Briefly they triumphed, raising hopes among the
impoverished
local peasantry and gathering a group of supporters.
One cannot expect those raised in
impoverished
conditions to give a whit on the finer aspects of the working of nature.
Most of the country's
impoverished
citizens still live precarious and uncertain lives.
The overcrowded, polluted,
impoverished
world from before was a joy compared with the daily nightmare you now endure.
It's difficult to talk to someone with such an
impoverished
, boring, and primitive mindset.
What troubles me is how much our cultural conversation is being
impoverished
by a reluctance to face up to reality.
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