impoverished

im·pov·er·ished

adjective

Reduced to poverty; poverty-stricken: pledged aid to the impoverished, war-torn country.
Deprived of richness or strength; limited or depleted: an impoverished vocabulary.

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Adjective

(comparative more impoverished, superlative most impoverished)

Reduced to poverty.
Having lost a component, an ingredient, or a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted.

Verb

Simple past tense and past participle of impoverish.

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The population was not only impoverished and reduced in numbers but broken in spirit.
And impoverished by the ravages of the Huns.
Drought and famine came in 1860, and then upon the impoverished state came the strain of the Civil War.
The crystals of impoverished lead which fall process.
The soil is generally rocky and unfertile, and the population impoverished, scanty and ignorant.

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