Object

• million: The free market he argues will cause disaster, war, ethnic conflict, environmental destruction and impoverish millions.

• soil: In an attempt to impoverish the soil we will keep strimming the top, removing the wilted growth each time.

• nation: Consequently, as in many other ways, she impoverished the nation.

• population: Whole industries have been wiped out and vast sections of the population impoverished, forced to struggle to survive in the 'informal sector ' .

• country: Not much of a consolation, but better than his impoverishing the country and then signing it over to Brussels.

• people: The United States seemed to be aligning itself with the very forces impoverishing the Russian people.

Subject

• war: The present is a harsh reality: a country impoverished by two wars and more than a decade of economic sanctions.

Preposition: that

• society: The rebels ' defeat sealed the stalemate in Iraq that has impoverished that society and poisoned world politics to this day.

Modifying Another Word

• unbearably: Quote of the Day If it were not for Carcanet, my library would be unbearably impoverished.

• greatly: The parish suffered and was greatly impoverished as a result.

• too: It is much easier for tyrants to gain control of nations in which the people are too impoverished to resist them.

• already: This dispute, whether won or lost, will place an excessive burden on the already impoverished Tanzanian people.

• so: Nor might the common people be quite so impoverished next time.

• much: The greed for excess and endless variety abuses God's grace, destroys God's world, and impoverishes much of humanity.

Used with why or when

• when: Thus is Western Sahara impoverished when it could be helped.

• what: Then the jealousy of sexual desire impoverishes what is left.

Present participle complement

• develop: Agricultural protection of the kind practiced by the United States and the European Union impoverishes developing countries.

Preposition: in

• comparison: The implication of Dawkins ' unsubstantiated criticism is that a religious view of reality is deficient and impoverished in comparison with his own.

• term: Beech woodlands are not as impoverished in terms of diversity as might be expected from the lack of underlying plant structure.

Preposition: by

• war: The present is a harsh reality: a country impoverished by two wars and more than a decade of economic sanctions.