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to make someone very poor: The new law is likely to further impoverish single parents. He was made to pay a ruinous fine that impoverished his family. to make something weaker or worse in quality: Excessive farming had impoverished the soil. Our cultural heritage would be impoverished by the absence of Mozart. See.
Definition of impoverish verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
To impoverish is to take away a person's livelihood. When a drought ruins a farmer's crop and he has nothing to harvest, his bad luck may leave him and his family impoverished, or poor. The Latin prefix in- is changed to im when in front of a word starting with the letter p-, but its meaning "in" or "into" stays the same.
2 days ago · 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. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Derived forms. impoverisher (imˈpoverisher) noun.
Definitions of 'impoverish' 1. Something that impoverishes a person or a country makes them poor. [...] 2. A person or thing that impoverishes something makes it worse in quality. [...] More. Pronunciations of 'impoverish' American English: ɪmpɒvərɪʃ British English: ɪmpɒvərɪʃ. More. Conjugations of 'impoverish'
Definitions of 'impoverish' 1. Something that impoverishes a person or a country makes them poor. [...] 2. A person or thing that impoverishes something makes it worse in quality. [...] More. Pronunciations of the word 'impoverish' British English: ɪmpɒvərɪʃ American English: ɪmpɒvərɪʃ. More. Conjugations of 'impoverish'
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English im‧pov‧e‧rish /ɪmˈpɒvərɪʃ $ ɪmˈpɑː-/ verb [ transitive] 1 to make someone very poor Falling coffee prices have impoverished many Third World economies. families impoverished by debt 2 to make something worse in quality Fast-growing trees remove nutrients and impoverish the soil. —impoverished adjec...
