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impoverish
im·pov·er·ish I0064200 (ĭm-pŏv′ər-ĭsh, -pŏv′rĭsh)tr.v. im·pov·er·ished, im·pov·er·ish·ing, im·pov·er·ish·es 1. To reduce to poverty; make poor.2. To deprive of richness or strength: impoverish the soil by overuse.
[Middle English empoverishen, from Old French empovrir, empovriss- : en-, causative pref.; see en-1 + povre, poor (from Latin pauper; see pauper).]
im·pov′er·ish·ment n.impoverish (ɪmˈpɒvərɪʃ) vb (tr) 1. to make poor or diminish the quality of: to impoverish society by cutting the grant to the arts. 2. to deprive (soil, etc) of fertility[C15: from Old French empovrir, from povre poor] imˈpoverisher n imˈpoverishment nim•pov•er•ish (ɪmˈpɒv ər ɪʃ, -ˈpɒv rɪʃ)
v.t. 1. to reduce to poverty. 2. to exhaust the strength or vitality of; deplete: Excessive farming impoverished the soil. [1400–50; late Middle English < Middle French empovriss-, long s. of empovrir=em- em-1 + -povrir, v. derivative of povre poor; see -ish2] im•pov′er•ish•er, n. im•pov′er•ish•ment, n. impoverish
Past participle: impoverished
Gerund: impoverishing
| Imperative |
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| impoverish | | impoverish |
| Present |
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| I impoverish | | you impoverish | | he/she/it impoverishes | | we impoverish | | you impoverish | | they impoverish |
| Preterite |
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| I impoverished | | you impoverished | | he/she/it impoverished | | we impoverished | | you impoverished | | they impoverished |
| Present Continuous |
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| I am impoverishing | | you are impoverishing | | he/she/it is impoverishing | | we are impoverishing | | you are impoverishing | | they are impoverishing |
| Present Perfect |
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| I have impoverished | | you have impoverished | | he/she/it has impoverished | | we have impoverished | | you have impoverished | | they have impoverished |
| Past Continuous |
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| I was impoverishing | | you were impoverishing | | he/she/it was impoverishing | | we were impoverishing | | you were impoverishing | | they were impoverishing |
| Past Perfect |
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| I had impoverished | | you had impoverished | | he/she/it had impoverished | | we had impoverished | | you had impoverished | | they had impoverished |
| Future |
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| I will impoverish | | you will impoverish | | he/she/it will impoverish | | we will impoverish | | you will impoverish | | they will impoverish |
| Future Perfect |
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| I will have impoverished | | you will have impoverished | | he/she/it will have impoverished | | we will have impoverished | | you will have impoverished | | they will have impoverished |
| Future Continuous |
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| I will be impoverishing | | you will be impoverishing | | he/she/it will be impoverishing | | we will be impoverishing | | you will be impoverishing | | they will be impoverishing |
| Present Perfect Continuous |
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| I have been impoverishing | | you have been impoverishing | | he/she/it has been impoverishing | | we have been impoverishing | | you have been impoverishing | | they have been impoverishing |
| Future Perfect Continuous |
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| I will have been impoverishing | | you will have been impoverishing | | he/she/it will have been impoverishing | | we will have been impoverishing | | you will have been impoverishing | | they will have been impoverishing |
| Past Perfect Continuous |
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| I had been impoverishing | | you had been impoverishing | | he/she/it had been impoverishing | | we had been impoverishing | | you had been impoverishing | | they had been impoverishing |
| Conditional |
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| I would impoverish | | you would impoverish | | he/she/it would impoverish | | we would impoverish | | you would impoverish | | they would impoverish |
| Past Conditional |
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| I would have impoverished | | you would have impoverished | | he/she/it would have impoverished | | we would have impoverished | | you would have impoverished | | they would have impoverished |
Thesaurus| Verb | 1. | impoverish - make poordeprive - keep from having, keeping, or obtainingreduce - lessen and make more modest; "reduce one's standard of living"pauperise, pauperize, beggar - reduce to beggarybankrupt, ruin, smash, break - reduce to bankruptcy; "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!"; "The slump in the financial markets smashed him"enrich - make wealthy or richer; "the oil boom enriched a lot of local people" | | 2. | impoverish - take awaydeprivedisestablish - deprive (an established church) of its statusdecline, worsen - grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened" |
impoverishverb1. bankrupt, ruin, beggar, break, pauperize a society impoverished by wartime inflation2. deplete, drain, exhaust, diminish, use up, sap, wear out, reduce Mint impoverishes the soil quickly.impoverishverb1. To reduce to financial insolvency:bankrupt, break, bust, pauperize, ruin.Slang: clean out.2. To lessen or weaken severely, as by removing something essential:deplete, drain, exhaust, sap, use up.Translationsimpoverish (imˈpovəriʃ) verb to make poor. 使窮困 使穷困imˈpoverishment noun 窮困 穷困impoverish
Related to impoverish: enrichSynonyms for impoverishverb bankruptSynonyms- bankrupt
- ruin
- beggar
- break
- pauperize
verb depleteSynonyms- deplete
- drain
- exhaust
- diminish
- use up
- sap
- wear out
- reduce
Synonyms for impoverishverb to reduce to financial insolvencySynonyms- bankrupt
- break
- bust
- pauperize
- ruin
- clean out
verb to lessen or weaken severely, as by removing something essentialSynonyms- deplete
- drain
- exhaust
- sap
- use up
Synonyms for impoverishverb make poorRelated Words- deprive
- reduce
- pauperise
- pauperize
- beggar
- bankrupt
- ruin
- smash
- break
Antonymsverb take awaySynonymsRelated Words- disestablish
- decline
- worsen
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