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单词 impoverishing
释义 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.
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