| 单词 | impoverishment |
| 释义 | impoverishment (once / 15153 pages) n Impoverishment is the state or fact of being extremely poor. A neighborhood's impoverishment is sometimes obvious from its many abandoned buildings. You can use the noun impoverishment to mean "poverty," and also the act of forcing someone into poverty. A despotic government's impoverishment of its own people can be a way to control the citizens. A situation can also cause impoverishment, such as a serious illness and lack of health insurance. The verb impoverish, or "make poor," comes from the Old French empoverir, "to make poor," from povre, "poor." WORD FAMILYimpoverishment: impoverishments+/impoverish: impoverished, impoverishes, impoverishing, impoverishment USAGE EXAMPLES“The unemployment rate is distressing; the impoverishment of the population is palpable everywhere; our social protection system is in deficit and is in peril.” The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) Never mind that these men were responsible for the deaths of tens of millions and the impoverishment of hundreds of millions. Wall Street Journal(Dec 23, 2016) In the early 20th century, there was too much stigma attached to his impoverishment and mental illness, she said. New York Times(Oct 27, 2016) 1n the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper poorness, poverty wealth, wealthiness the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money deprivation, neediness, privation, want a state of extreme poverty destitutiona state without friends or money or prospects indigence, need, pauperism, pauperization, penurya state of extreme poverty or destitution impecuniousness, pennilessness, penuriousnessa state of lacking money beggary, mendicancy, mendicitythe state of being a beggar or mendicant financial condition the condition of (corporate or personal) finances 2n the act of making someone poor Syn|Hyper pauperisation, pauperization deprivation, privation act of depriving someone of food or money or rights |
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