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imˈpoverished, ppl. a.|-ɪʃt| [f. prec. + -ed1.] Reduced to poverty; made poor, weak, etc.
a1631Donne in Select. (1840) 16 Records of..impoverished and forgotten, and obliterate families. 1753N. Torriano Gangr. Sore Throat p. xii, An impoverished, and consequently an acrimonious State of Blood. 1772Burke Dormant Claims Ch. Wks. 1842 II. 498 An impoverished and degraded clergy. 1882J. H. Blunt Ref. Ch. Eng. II. 486 He found an impoverished exchequer. |