impoverish - Wiktionary, the free dictionary impoverish (third-person singular simple present impoverishes, present participle impoverishing, simple past and past participle impoverished) (transitive) To make poor That exuberant crop quickly impoverishes any fertile soil To many of us, organized religion is obnoxious
impoverish - WordReference. com Dictionary of English to reduce to poverty: The family was impoverished because neither parent could find work to exhaust the strength or vitality of: Excessive farming impoverished the soil im•pov•er•ished, adj : We lived in an impoverished African country to reduce to poverty: a country impoverished by war
Impoverish - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com To impoverish is to take away a person's livelihood When a drought ruins a farmer's crop and he has nothing to harvest, his bad luck may leave him and his family impoverished, or poor
IMPOVERISH Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words | Merriam-Webster . . . Some common synonyms of impoverish are bankrupt, deplete, drain, and exhaust While all these words mean "to deprive of something essential to existence or potency," impoverish suggests a deprivation of something essential to richness or productiveness