About The Word Impoverish
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Impoverish
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What's The Definition Of Impoverish?
[v] take away
[v] make poor Synonyms | Synonyms for Impoverish: deprive Related Terms | Find terms related to Impoverish: ablate | absorb | assimilate | bankrupt | beggar | bleed | bleed white | break | burn up | bust | consume | denude | deplete | deplume | despoil | digest | displume | divest | drain | drain of resources | draw | draw down | dry | eat | eat up | erode | exhaust | expend | finish | finish off | flay | fleece | fold up | gobble | gobble up | ingest | milk | pauper | pauperize | pick clean | pluck | reduce | ruin | scuttle | shear | sink | skin | spend | squander | strip | strip bare | suck dry | swallow | swallow up | use up | waste away | wear away See Also | bankrupt | beggar | break | decline | deprive | disestablish | pauperise | pauperize | reduce | ruin | worsen Impoverish In Webster's Dictionary \Im*pov"er*ish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Impoverished};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Impoverishing}.] [OF. empovrir; pref. em-
(L. in) + povre poor, F. pauvre; cf. OF. apovrir, F.
appauvrir, where the prefix is a-, L. ad. Cf. {Empoverish},
and see {Poor}, and {-ish}.]
1. To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as,
misfortune and disease impoverish families.
2. To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to
make sterile; as, to impoverish land.
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