单词	impoverishment
释义	impoverishment /ɪmˈpɒv(ə)rɪʃm(ə)nt / noun [mass noun] 1The process of becoming poor; loss of wealth: fifteen years of political instability resulted in widespread impoverishment and famine... The colonial connection appears to be more likely a route to impoverishment than riches. For the majority of blacks, the New Deal at first meant further impoverishment. The consequence of a lack of free trade could be a relative impoverishment of the working population. 1.1The process of losing or being deprived of strength or vitality; deterioration: this caused substantial impoverishment of the soil the impoverishment of language... To build quickly or formulaically generally entails the debasement of materials, with a resulting sensory impoverishment. The simplification of labour refers to an impoverishment of its quality. The environmental group is campaigning for urgent action to put a stop to this wholesale impoverishment of our native flora.
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