单词 | impoverishing |
释义 | impoverishingn. The action of impoverish v. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > becoming or making poor impoverishing1450 poverishing1484 poverance1529 beggaringa1536 impoverishment1564 poverishment1568 depauperation1664 letdown1768 pauperization1812 depauperization1845 immiserization1942 1450 Rolls of Parl. V. 206/2 Grauntes..made to the distruccion and fynall empovrysshing of the seid Monasterie. 1694 P. Falle Acct. Isle of Jersey Pref. sig. Biij The impoverishing, if not undoing of the French. 1881 G. A. Henty Cornet of Horse (1888) xvii. 176 The impoverishing of the nobles. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2019). impoverishingadj. That impoverishes. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > making poor impoverishing1598 pauperizing1817 beggaring1883 1598 J. Dickenson Greene in Conceipt 20 Bolstring vp with your bags their impouerishing braueries. 1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta I. ii. 30 Country bookselling is a miserable, impoverishing, exasperating thing in these days. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1450adj.1598 |
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