impoverished

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Past tense and past participle of impoverish
Having lost a component, an ingredient, or a faculty or a feature ; rendered poor in sth ; depleted
Reduced to poverty
Deprived; depleted; limited
Poor; reduced to poverty
destroyed financially; "the broken fortunes of the family"
poor enough to need help from others
{s} poor, pauperized; weakened, robbed of strength, deprived of its natural richness
depauperate
dispossessed
impoverish
Become poor
impoverish
Make poor
impoverish
Weaken in quality; deprive of some strength or richness

That exuberant crop quickly impoverishes any fertile soil.

impoverish
to make indigent or poor
impoverish
To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land
impoverish
Something that impoverishes a person or a country makes them poor. We need to reduce the burden of taxes that impoverish the economy. a society impoverished by wartime inflation. + impoverished im·pov·er·ished an attempt to lure businesses into impoverished areas
impoverish
To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families
impoverish
take away
impoverish
Weaken the quality of; deprive of something
impoverish
{f} make poor, pauperize; take away the richness of, exhaust the strength of
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A person or thing that impoverishes something makes it worse in quality. plants that impoverish the soil quickly
impoverished
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