About The Word Impoverishment

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Impoverishment

Impoverishment Meaning & Definition
Impoverishment Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Impoverishment?

[n] the act of making someone poor
[n] the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

Synonyms | Synonyms for Impoverishment: pauperisation | pauperization | poorness | poverty

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See Also | beggary | deprivation | deprivation | destitution | economic condition | financial condition | impecuniousness | indigence | need | pauperism | pauperization | pennilessness | penuriousness | penury | privation | privation | want

Impoverishment In Webster's Dictionary

\Im*pov"er*ish*ment\, n. [Cf. OF. empoverissement, and F. appauvrissement.] The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished; reduction to poverty. --Sir W. Scott.

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