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impoverish::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | deprive |
| Type of | decline, worsen |
| Has types | disestablish |
| Derivation | impoverishment |
Examples of impoverish
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Export led economies such as China's actually, perversely, impoverish the world.
From the guardian.co.uk
Give them loanshark interest rates and draconian conditions to impoverish them.
From the economist.com
Their success threatens to impoverish our students, teachers, and classrooms.
From the edition.cnn.com
So if you impoverish Wall Street, politicians will sell their power to someone else.
From the economist.com
I see grandparents who impoverish themselves to make sure that their kids have money.
From the newsweek.com
A remedy will require substantive reforms so as not to impoverish future generations.
From the denverpost.com
In its present form, it would likely wreck this country and impoverish it.
From the guardian.co.uk
Over the course of this century, AGW will impoverish all nations far more than any tax.
From the independent.co.uk
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
From the blog.beliefnet.com
- Make poor
- Deprive: take away
- (impoverished) destitute: poor enough to need help from others
- (impoverished) broken: destroyed financially; "the broken fortunes of the family"
- (impoverishment) poverty: the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
- (impoverishment) pauperization: the act of making someone poor
- (Impoverished) Poverty is the lack of basic human needs, such as clean water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter, because of the inability to afford them. This is also referred to as absolute poverty or destitution. ...
- (impoverished) Reduced to poverty; Having lost a component, an ingredient, or a faculty or a feature ; rendered poor in sth ; depleted
- (impoverished) very poor, without money
