To ruin (men), to undo in worldly estate.
| 单词 | θ145169 |
| 释义 | the mind > possession > poverty > make poor or impoverish [verb (transitive)] (44) destroy1297 To ruin (men), to undo in worldly estate. poverisha1382 transitive. To make poor, impoverish. apoora1400 impover1418 transitive. To impoverish. Also intransitive. poora1425 transitive. To make poor, impoverish. dispurveyc1430 transitive. To rob or strip of provision; to render destitute. Chiefly in past pple, dispurveyed (= Old French desporveii, modern French dépourvu)… impoverish1440 transitive. To make poor; to reduce to poverty. beggar1528 transitive. To make a beggar of, exhaust the means of, reduce to beggary; to impoverish. weaken1530 To lessen (authority, influence, power, credit), †to lower the value of (something); †to impoverish (an estate). ruinate1547 transitive. To reduce (a person) to a state of complete poverty; to deprive of moral or social standing. Also reflexive. Cf. ruin, v. 2. Now… ruin1560 transitive. To reduce to a state of complete poverty; to deprive of wealth or other resources. Also occasionally intransitive. depauper1562 = depauperate, v. depoverish1569 transitive. To make poor, impoverish. craze1573 figurative. To destroy the soundness of, impair, ruin; to ruin financially, render bankrupt. (Usually in passive.) Obsolete or archaic. soak1577 To drain, exhaust, impoverish. Also to soak dryor up. Obsolete. sift1591 To clear or clean from impurities, etc., by means of a sieve; also figurative, to clean (one) out of money. waste1599 To diminish or consume the livelihood of, impoverish (a person). Also reflexive to spend one's substance, impoverish oneself; also with out. Obsolete. impoor1613 transitive. To make poor; to impoverish. uncluea1616 transitive. To undo, unwind; to reveal, open up. Also figurative: to ruin. Also reflexive. depauperate1623 transitive. To render poor, to impoverish; to reduce in quality, vigour, or capacity. disenrich1647 transitive. To deprive of riches; to impoverish. necessitate1647 transitive. In passive. Also with in, for. Obsolete. erumnate1676 transitive. To impoverish, make miserable. straiten1699 To render short of money. poorify1711 transitive. To make poor; to impoverish. pauperize1806 transitive. To make a pauper of; to reduce to the condition of a pauper, or to poverty or destitution; spec. to make dependent on public relief. pauperate1839 transitive. = pauperize, v. pauper1841 transitive. = pauperize, v. to clear out1884 To empty and leave clear. slang. To rid of cash, to ‘clean out’. immiserate1956 transitive. To make (a person or people) progressively poorer; to reduce to a state of complete poverty or misery; to impoverish. Cf. immiserize v.… penny-pincha1961 transitive. To act in a parsimonious way towards; to make poor; to underfund. Cf. penny-pinched, adj. immiserize1971 (transitive) to impoverish. Subcategories:— by depredations or extortions (3) — make extremely poor or destitute (3) — leave destitute (2) — render penniless (1) — by tax (1) — free from state of being a pauper (2) |
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