Impoverished meaning

ĭm-pŏv'ə-rĭsht, -pŏv'rĭsht
Reduced to poverty; poverty-stricken.

Pledged aid to the impoverished, war-torn country.

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Deprived of richness or strength; limited or depleted.

An impoverished vocabulary.

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Reduced to poverty.
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Having lost a component, an ingredient, or a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted.
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Simple past tense and past participle of impoverish.
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Impoverished Sentence Examples

  • The population was not only impoverished and reduced in numbers but broken in spirit.

  • and impoverished by the ravages of the Huns.

  • The crystals of impoverished lead which fall process.

  • Drought and famine came in 1860, and then upon the impoverished state came the strain of the Civil War.

  • The soil is generally rocky and unfertile, and the population impoverished, scanty and ignorant.

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