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▪ I. imˈpoverishing, vbl. n. [f. as prec. + -ing1.] The action of the vb. impoverish.
1450Rolls of Parlt. V. 206/2 Grauntes..made to the distruccion and fynall empovrysshing of the seid Monasterie. 1694Falle Jersey Pref. B iij, The impoverishing, if not undoing of the French. 1881Henty Cornet of Horse xvii. (1888) 176 The impoverishing of the nobles. ▪ II. imˈpoverishing, ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ing2.] That impoverishes.
1598J. Dickenson Greene in Conc. (1878) 120 Boulstring vp with your bags their impouerishing braueries. 1876T. Hardy Ethelberta (1890) 21 Country bookselling is a miserable, impoverishing, exasperating thing in these days. |