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impoverishim‧pov‧e‧rish /ɪmˈpɒvərɪʃ $ ɪmˈpɑː-/ verb [transitive]   impoverishOrigin: 1400-1500 Old French empovrir, from povre ‘poor’ - Crop rotation has not impoverished the soil.
- Many patients worry that paying for treatments will impoverish them.
- A labourer howls in the nothingness of the blank paper, which is also the empty, impoverished land.
- If excellence is unrecognised, the culture is doubly impoverished.
- My family was impoverished during most of my youth.
- She learned it from impoverished people who had come to her in desperation.
- Should've been large enough for de Verne needs, although he said the wars had impoverished him.
- The kids are mostly minorities; their bleak, impoverished lives stand in stark contrast to the mansions on their maps.
- These clients draw on the bank's supplies to stock soup kitchens, senior lunch rooms and meal programs for impoverished kids.
- This helps explain why pentecostalism is attracting most of its membership among the impoverished majority rather than among the privileged few.
having very little money► poor · They were so poor they couldn't afford to buy shoes for their children.· She was born in a poor district of Chicago in 1925.· People who live in poor countries have a much lower life expectancy.· These cuts will hit the poorest members of society.· Some Democrats believed they lost the election because many poor women didn't turn out to vote.dirt poor American (=extremely poor) · Her mother grew up dirt poor among migrant workers in Alabama. ► badly off having less money than most other people: · She was quite badly off for a while after her husband died.· We were pretty poor, but most of our friends were even worse off.· No matter how badly off we were, we never went to bed hungry. ► needy/in need needy people or people who are in need do not have enough money to buy food, clothes etc, and deserve help: · The fund was established to help needy widows whose husbands had died in the war.· More aid should be given to needy families.· All profits from the concert will go to help children in need. ► impoverished formal very poor - use this especially about people or places that were not poor in the past: · His family became so impoverished they were forced to sell the farm.· All there was in the region was dry soil and impoverished villages. ► poverty-stricken written extremely poor, and suffering as a result of this: · At the moment, many poverty-stricken communities are experiencing a shortage of teachers.· His photographs show vividly the lives of poverty-stricken families in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. ► destitute especially written having no money or possessions, and often nowhere to live, especially when there seems to be no possibility of improving the situation: · In 1860 Father Murphy set up a home for orphans and destitute children.· The rest of her family all died in a smallpox epidemic, leaving her destitute. NOUN► country· They would turn the clock back to policies that impoverished and divided our country.· This is an important issue for impoverished countries with limited food supplies.· The young of this impoverished landlocked country see no future here. 1to make someone very poor:  Falling coffee prices have impoverished many Third World economies. families impoverished by debt2to make something worse in quality: Fast-growing trees remove nutrients and impoverish the soil.—impoverished adjective: an impoverished student—impoverishment noun [uncountable]: spiritual impoverishment |