verb
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To make poor.
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To weaken in quality; to deprive of some strength or richness.
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That exuberant crop quickly impoverishes any fertile soil.
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To become poor.
adjective
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Reduced to poverty.
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Having lost a component, an ingredient, or a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted.
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English has an impoverished inflectional system.
Examples of impoverished in a Sentence
The population was not only impoverished and reduced in numbers but broken in spirit.
Drought and famine came in 1860, and then upon the impoverished state came the strain of the Civil War.
The soil is generally rocky and unfertile, and the population impoverished, scanty and ignorant.
Primary PEM is common in impoverished areas of developing countries.
The destruction of property was enormous, the hardest-working and best tax-paying element in the country was destroyed, or impoverished, and where the breadwinners were killed the women and children were left destitute.
Nearly all of these deaths occur in impoverished parts of Africa and Asia, where they often result from contamination of the water supply by animal and human feces.
Albrecht had been elected at the age of twenty-four to a see already impoverished by frequent successions and payments of annates to Rome.
He likewise added to his power by assuming the captainship of the city guard (1495), and later by the purchase from the impoverished commune of several outlying castles (1507).
The Peruvians were impoverished, and under such conditions foreign capital could not be secured.
He was relatively impoverished count who could provide little dowry for his daughters.
An ignorant and impoverished population was more readily subjugated by Princes of the Church.
His daughter, Gulnara, seems to be following in her dictator daddy's footsteps by coming under fire for forcing child labor and embezzling from the small, impoverished nation's revenues to pad her family's bank accounts.
Impoverished by these different causes, as well as by prodigal extravagance in interior expenditure, by shameless venality among the ruling classes, and by continual wars, of which the cost, whether they were successful or not, was enormous, the public treasury was frequently empty.
During the tropical rains the soil is liable, to a greater or less extent, to denudation, which becomes very serious when the land slopes; and in any case, the soil is apt to become impoverished by the loss of its soluble constituents.
In 1629 the inhabitants, impoverished by their losses, obtained licence to erect a port.
It is invariably the result of some cause acting generally, such as renal disease, valvular defect of the heart, or an impoverished state of the blood; while a mere oedema is usually dependent upon some local obstruction to the return of blood or lymph, or of both, the presence of parasites within the tissue, such as the filaria sanguinis hominis or trichina spiralis, or the poisonous bites of insects.
It is said that he even impoverished the treasury of the Roman Church by his unlimited charities.
Under this rgime the resources of the country were impoverished, while the finances fell into complete and incomprehensible chaos.
Italy was recovered for the empire, but it was an Italy terribly impoverished and depopulated, whose possession carried little strength with it.
He lived to see the World War of 1914 and the Russian revolution of 1917, which forced him into impoverished retirement at his villa at Biarritz.
In a few years he had incurred a debt of 56 million francs, a burden assumed by the impoverished state.
The rich bourgeoisie began more achieve- and more to monopolize the magistracy; and though the country-people were somewhat relieved from the burden which had been crushing them, the working-classes remained impoverished, owing to the increase of prices which followed at a distance the rise of wages.
The revocation of the edict of Nantes vitiated thi-ough a fatal contradiction all the efforts of the latter to create new manufactures; the country was impoverished for tht1 benefit of the foreigner to such a point that economic conditions began to alarm those private persons most noted for their talents, their character, or their regard for the public welfare; such as La Bruyre and Fnelon in 1692, Bois-Guillebert in 1697 and Vauban In.
The people became more and more impoverished and degraded, a new and shoddy nobility was created and granted wide privileges, and art and letters declined.
His father, Vincenzio, was an impoverished descendant of a noble Florentine house, which had exchanged the surname of Bonajuti for that of Galilei, on the election, in 1 343, of one of its members, Tommaso de' Bonajuti, to the college of the twelve Buonuomini.
She supported various schemes of emigration to the colonies; and in Ireland helped to promote the fishing industry by starting schools, and providing boats, besides advancing £250,000 in 1880 for supplying seed to the impoverished tenants.
The cultivators were driven from the plains, agriculture was destroyed, and the country was seriously impoverished when its ruin was completed by the ravages and wholesale butcheries of Timur.
The bishoprics of Brandenburg, Havelberg and Lebus were secularized; their administration was entrusted to members of the elector's family; and their revenues formed a welcome addition to his impoverished exchequer.
Relatively isolated and impoverished communities turned themselves into rich self-governing city-states exercising power that was felt and feared over a wide area.
The parish suffered and was greatly impoverished as a result.
All were impoverished, R and greed was the dominant motive of the members of the privy council, the rulers of the country.
He was restored by the peace of Westphalia, but it was to a depopulated and impoverished country, and he spent his remaining years in efforts to repair the disasters of the great war.
Country neighbors from Otradnoe, impoverished old squires and their daughters, Peronskaya a maid of honor, Pierre Bezukhov, and the son of their district postmaster who had obtained a post in Petersburg.
The clash of cultures, impoverished means and surreal spectacle of this area can be found traced through the company 's work.
Ever the humanitarian, she and partner Brad Pitt have raised awareness about international adoptions and the plight of people in impoverished areas of the world.
She has long lobbied for greater attention to impoverished people across the globe, whether it's visiting refugees in Ecuador or pushing for legislation that will aid children in Third World countries.
No doubt fans and the press will continue to look to her for attention-getting headlines and valiant efforts toward helping impoverished people all over the world.
The Princeton Review specifically works with underprivileged communities to help bridge the gap between wealthy and impoverished children and their ability to take standardized tests and test well enough to enter into college.
Currently, Lacoste products are worn by everyone, the posh and the impoverished.
The Somebody Cares Tampa Bay organization is a network of non-profit independent groups throughout the Tampa Bay area that help to support the community, particularly the sick, the ailing and the impoverished.
The family was greatly impoverished owing to his losses over these schemes, but still possessed a good deal of interest.
In Sweden the first class includes many impoverished mountain Lapps.
He had impoverished Carlisle, and in his new see, according to Burnet (who calls him "a sour ill-tempered man"), "minded chiefly the enriching of his family."
Whole industries have been wiped out and vast sections of the population impoverished, forced to struggle to survive in the 'informal sector ' .
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This dispute, whether won or lost, will place an excessive burden on the already impoverished Tanzanian people.
Nor might the common people be quite so impoverished next time.
The freely draining impoverished ands and gravels support a very simple flora which is dominated by ling and bell heather.
Young people from impoverished areas often have to surmount additional obstacles to gain a better education.
Despite the impoverished state of the kingdom, the last century of Lusignan rule finally witnessed a social and cultural osmosis.