Definition of impoverish in English:

impoverish

verb ɪmˈpɒv(ə)rɪʃɪmˈpɑv(ə)rɪʃ

[with object]

1Make (a person or area) poor.
the wars had impoverished him
Example sentencesExamples
- He admitted that some impoverished farmers sell the crop to third parties who make cocaine for export to Western countries.
- And over 12 years he mocked the UN, while he tyrannised and impoverished his own people.
- A free market in milk quota, as indicated by the outcome in Northern Ireland, was a recipe for impoverishing farmers rather than enhancing their incomes, the Minister was told.
- A ban on timber exports would cost the exporters their clients and impoverish many hard-working people trying to make an honest living in an already harsh economic environment.
- The half island with a population of just 800,000 people is one of the most impoverished countries in the world.
- Concurrently, unemployment rates rocketed in these extremely impoverished areas and health care was almost nonexistent.
- Families in these impoverished regions are barely able to survive even when they are left alone.
- Unfortunately, small impoverished regions cannot remain both isolated and liberated for long.
- Once an economically impoverished people are educated, they can better understand the reasons for their poverty.
- Such companies, the argument goes, exploit poor workers abroad and impoverish workers at home by moving capital overseas.
- Many children have grown up economically impoverished and thrived as adults.
- The shirts will then be distributed to some of the most impoverished areas of the Macedonian capital.
- We think it is wrong that so many people are impoverished by local taxes.
- She was from a remote and impoverished African village, I had flown in from the other side of the world.
- Sanctions imposed back then are still in place, more than ever raising questions about the wisdom and the morality of impoverishing an entire people in an effort to punish its leaders.
- Only eight of the world's most impoverished countries have seen a significant cut in their payments to Western creditors.
- The residents are mostly impoverished families who survive by collecting recyclable garbage.
- However, due to the burgeoning housing developments outside the Bay Area, another flood may kill or impoverish thousands.
- The costs of treatment or even testing for the disease is seen as prohibitive in such impoverished areas.
- Environmentalists claim trade harms the environment and further impoverishes people in the developing world.
Synonyms
make poor, make penniless, reduce to penury, reduce to destitution, bring to ruin, bring someone to their knees, bankrupt, ruin, make insolvent
wipe out, clean out, break, cripple
rare pauperize, beggar
poor, poverty-stricken, penniless, penurious, destitute, indigent, impecunious, needy, pauperized, in distressed/reduced/straitened circumstances, in want, in need, down and out, on the breadline
bankrupt, ruined, insolvent, wiped out, cleaned out, broken, crippled, without a penny to one's name
informal broke, flat broke, stony broke, on one's uppers, strapped (for cash), on one's beam ends, bust, hard up, without two pennies/farthings to rub together, without a bean, without a sou, as poor as a church mouse, on skid row
British informal skint, without a shot in one's locker
British rhyming slang boracic (lint)
North American informal stone broke, without a red cent
rare beggared
1. 1.1 Exhaust the strength or vitality of.
  the soil was impoverished by annual burning
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘This death impoverishes us all,’ our short-lived leader said.
  The sense among conservationists, he said, is that current rates of burning ‘are too frequent and impoverishing ecosystems.’
  The promotion of the idea that private is better than public not only impoverishes our common dreams - it is also clearly untrue.
  Australian soils as with many trace elements have been quite impoverished but most of that has been corrected.
  While the two-party system meets the known and stated political demands of many - probably most - Americans, it impoverishes our political discourse.
  It lessens the map, loses chances for reflection and meta-level thought and language and impoverishes the imagination of all.
  This is a crushing cultural loss which impoverishes us all.
  Religious believers sometimes accuse us of having a superficial and impoverished view of the world.
  Reducing it to an expletive degrades the word, erases the idea, impoverishes language and makes us ever so slightly more stupid than we were before.
  British society, never more affluent, seemed spiritually impoverished and socially divided.
  Prolonged military confrontation… will impoverish our resources and strength, while retarding our march to civilization by at least a hundred years.
  Our private hopes are encouraged, while our public hopes are impoverished.
  Canada was prospering in a material sense; spiritually it was becoming increasingly impoverished.
  America's entertainment culture was becoming increasingly impoverished: Redford saw independent film as its best hope.
  They impoverish soil and destroy habitat, including wetlands.
  All those obscenities and repeated slang phrases may be authentic but they tend to impoverish the language of his books.
  It not only impoverishes our language, it gives young people - especially very young children - the notion that it is acceptable.
  In this party we believe one child in poverty impoverishes us all.
  And the absence of the annual leaf fall - organic matter that helps hold moisture - impoverishes what soil is left.
  This would also, I fear, gravely impoverish our language.
  Synonyms
  weaken, sap, exhaust, drain, empty, diminish, deplete, enervate, suck dry
  informal bleed
  weakened, exhausted, drained, sapped, diminished, depleted, enervated, sucked dry, used up, spent, played out
  barren, unproductive, unfertile, arid, uncultivatable

Origin

Late Middle English (formerly also as empoverish): from Old French empoveriss-, lengthened stem of empoverir, based on povre 'poor'.

Definition of impoverish in US English:

impoverish

verbɪmˈpɑv(ə)rɪʃimˈpäv(ə)riSH

[with object]

1Make (a person or area) poor.
they discourage investment and impoverish their people
Example sentencesExamples
- Many children have grown up economically impoverished and thrived as adults.
- The shirts will then be distributed to some of the most impoverished areas of the Macedonian capital.
- Concurrently, unemployment rates rocketed in these extremely impoverished areas and health care was almost nonexistent.
- Such companies, the argument goes, exploit poor workers abroad and impoverish workers at home by moving capital overseas.
- The costs of treatment or even testing for the disease is seen as prohibitive in such impoverished areas.
- And over 12 years he mocked the UN, while he tyrannised and impoverished his own people.
- Only eight of the world's most impoverished countries have seen a significant cut in their payments to Western creditors.
- He admitted that some impoverished farmers sell the crop to third parties who make cocaine for export to Western countries.
- However, due to the burgeoning housing developments outside the Bay Area, another flood may kill or impoverish thousands.
- The residents are mostly impoverished families who survive by collecting recyclable garbage.
- Sanctions imposed back then are still in place, more than ever raising questions about the wisdom and the morality of impoverishing an entire people in an effort to punish its leaders.
- A free market in milk quota, as indicated by the outcome in Northern Ireland, was a recipe for impoverishing farmers rather than enhancing their incomes, the Minister was told.
- Environmentalists claim trade harms the environment and further impoverishes people in the developing world.
- Unfortunately, small impoverished regions cannot remain both isolated and liberated for long.
- The half island with a population of just 800,000 people is one of the most impoverished countries in the world.
- She was from a remote and impoverished African village, I had flown in from the other side of the world.
- Once an economically impoverished people are educated, they can better understand the reasons for their poverty.
- We think it is wrong that so many people are impoverished by local taxes.
- A ban on timber exports would cost the exporters their clients and impoverish many hard-working people trying to make an honest living in an already harsh economic environment.
- Families in these impoverished regions are barely able to survive even when they are left alone.
Synonyms
poor, poverty-stricken, penniless, penurious, destitute, indigent, impecunious, needy, pauperized, in distressed circumstances, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, in want, in need, down and out, on the breadline
make poor, make penniless, reduce to penury, reduce to destitution, bring to ruin, bring someone to their knees, bankrupt, ruin, make insolvent
1. 1.1 Exhaust the strength or vitality of.
  the soil was impoverished by annual burning
  Example sentencesExamples
  Our private hopes are encouraged, while our public hopes are impoverished.
  The sense among conservationists, he said, is that current rates of burning ‘are too frequent and impoverishing ecosystems.’
  Reducing it to an expletive degrades the word, erases the idea, impoverishes language and makes us ever so slightly more stupid than we were before.
  It not only impoverishes our language, it gives young people - especially very young children - the notion that it is acceptable.
  All those obscenities and repeated slang phrases may be authentic but they tend to impoverish the language of his books.
  This is a crushing cultural loss which impoverishes us all.
  It lessens the map, loses chances for reflection and meta-level thought and language and impoverishes the imagination of all.
  Australian soils as with many trace elements have been quite impoverished but most of that has been corrected.
  Prolonged military confrontation… will impoverish our resources and strength, while retarding our march to civilization by at least a hundred years.
  ‘This death impoverishes us all,’ our short-lived leader said.
  British society, never more affluent, seemed spiritually impoverished and socially divided.
  Religious believers sometimes accuse us of having a superficial and impoverished view of the world.
  And the absence of the annual leaf fall - organic matter that helps hold moisture - impoverishes what soil is left.
  Canada was prospering in a material sense; spiritually it was becoming increasingly impoverished.
  America's entertainment culture was becoming increasingly impoverished: Redford saw independent film as its best hope.
  While the two-party system meets the known and stated political demands of many - probably most - Americans, it impoverishes our political discourse.
  They impoverish soil and destroy habitat, including wetlands.
  In this party we believe one child in poverty impoverishes us all.
  The promotion of the idea that private is better than public not only impoverishes our common dreams - it is also clearly untrue.
  This would also, I fear, gravely impoverish our language.
  Synonyms
  weakened, exhausted, drained, sapped, diminished, depleted, enervated, sucked dry, used up, spent, played out
  weaken, sap, exhaust, drain, empty, diminish, deplete, enervate, suck dry

Origin

Late Middle English (formerly also as empoverish): from Old French empoveriss-, lengthened stem of empoverir, based on povre ‘poor’.

单词	impoverish
释义	Definition of impoverish in English: impoverish verb ɪmˈpɒv(ə)rɪʃɪmˈpɑv(ə)rɪʃ [with object] 1Make (a person or area) poor. the wars had impoverished him Example sentencesExamples He admitted that some impoverished farmers sell the crop to third parties who make cocaine for export to Western countries. And over 12 years he mocked the UN, while he tyrannised and impoverished his own people. A free market in milk quota, as indicated by the outcome in Northern Ireland, was a recipe for impoverishing farmers rather than enhancing their incomes, the Minister was told. A ban on timber exports would cost the exporters their clients and impoverish many hard-working people trying to make an honest living in an already harsh economic environment. The half island with a population of just 800,000 people is one of the most impoverished countries in the world. Concurrently, unemployment rates rocketed in these extremely impoverished areas and health care was almost nonexistent. Families in these impoverished regions are barely able to survive even when they are left alone. Unfortunately, small impoverished regions cannot remain both isolated and liberated for long. Once an economically impoverished people are educated, they can better understand the reasons for their poverty. Such companies, the argument goes, exploit poor workers abroad and impoverish workers at home by moving capital overseas. Many children have grown up economically impoverished and thrived as adults. The shirts will then be distributed to some of the most impoverished areas of the Macedonian capital. We think it is wrong that so many people are impoverished by local taxes. She was from a remote and impoverished African village, I had flown in from the other side of the world. Sanctions imposed back then are still in place, more than ever raising questions about the wisdom and the morality of impoverishing an entire people in an effort to punish its leaders. Only eight of the world's most impoverished countries have seen a significant cut in their payments to Western creditors. The residents are mostly impoverished families who survive by collecting recyclable garbage. However, due to the burgeoning housing developments outside the Bay Area, another flood may kill or impoverish thousands. The costs of treatment or even testing for the disease is seen as prohibitive in such impoverished areas. Environmentalists claim trade harms the environment and further impoverishes people in the developing world. Synonyms make poor, make penniless, reduce to penury, reduce to destitution, bring to ruin, bring someone to their knees, bankrupt, ruin, make insolvent wipe out, clean out, break, cripple rare pauperize, beggar poor, poverty-stricken, penniless, penurious, destitute, indigent, impecunious, needy, pauperized, in distressed/reduced/straitened circumstances, in want, in need, down and out, on the breadline bankrupt, ruined, insolvent, wiped out, cleaned out, broken, crippled, without a penny to one's name informal broke, flat broke, stony broke, on one's uppers, strapped (for cash), on one's beam ends, bust, hard up, without two pennies/farthings to rub together, without a bean, without a sou, as poor as a church mouse, on skid row British informal skint, without a shot in one's locker British rhyming slang boracic (lint) North American informal stone broke, without a red cent rare beggared 1.1 Exhaust the strength or vitality of. the soil was impoverished by annual burning Example sentencesExamples ‘This death impoverishes us all,’ our short-lived leader said. The sense among conservationists, he said, is that current rates of burning ‘are too frequent and impoverishing ecosystems.’ The promotion of the idea that private is better than public not only impoverishes our common dreams - it is also clearly untrue. Australian soils as with many trace elements have been quite impoverished but most of that has been corrected. While the two-party system meets the known and stated political demands of many - probably most - Americans, it impoverishes our political discourse. It lessens the map, loses chances for reflection and meta-level thought and language and impoverishes the imagination of all. This is a crushing cultural loss which impoverishes us all. Religious believers sometimes accuse us of having a superficial and impoverished view of the world. Reducing it to an expletive degrades the word, erases the idea, impoverishes language and makes us ever so slightly more stupid than we were before. British society, never more affluent, seemed spiritually impoverished and socially divided. Prolonged military confrontation… will impoverish our resources and strength, while retarding our march to civilization by at least a hundred years. Our private hopes are encouraged, while our public hopes are impoverished. Canada was prospering in a material sense; spiritually it was becoming increasingly impoverished. America's entertainment culture was becoming increasingly impoverished: Redford saw independent film as its best hope. They impoverish soil and destroy habitat, including wetlands. All those obscenities and repeated slang phrases may be authentic but they tend to impoverish the language of his books. It not only impoverishes our language, it gives young people - especially very young children - the notion that it is acceptable. In this party we believe one child in poverty impoverishes us all. And the absence of the annual leaf fall - organic matter that helps hold moisture - impoverishes what soil is left. This would also, I fear, gravely impoverish our language. Synonyms weaken, sap, exhaust, drain, empty, diminish, deplete, enervate, suck dry informal bleed weakened, exhausted, drained, sapped, diminished, depleted, enervated, sucked dry, used up, spent, played out barren, unproductive, unfertile, arid, uncultivatable Origin Late Middle English (formerly also as empoverish): from Old French empoveriss-, lengthened stem of empoverir, based on povre 'poor'. Definition of impoverish in US English: impoverish verbɪmˈpɑv(ə)rɪʃimˈpäv(ə)riSH [with object] 1Make (a person or area) poor. they discourage investment and impoverish their people Example sentencesExamples Many children have grown up economically impoverished and thrived as adults. The shirts will then be distributed to some of the most impoverished areas of the Macedonian capital. Concurrently, unemployment rates rocketed in these extremely impoverished areas and health care was almost nonexistent. Such companies, the argument goes, exploit poor workers abroad and impoverish workers at home by moving capital overseas. The costs of treatment or even testing for the disease is seen as prohibitive in such impoverished areas. And over 12 years he mocked the UN, while he tyrannised and impoverished his own people. Only eight of the world's most impoverished countries have seen a significant cut in their payments to Western creditors. He admitted that some impoverished farmers sell the crop to third parties who make cocaine for export to Western countries. However, due to the burgeoning housing developments outside the Bay Area, another flood may kill or impoverish thousands. The residents are mostly impoverished families who survive by collecting recyclable garbage. Sanctions imposed back then are still in place, more than ever raising questions about the wisdom and the morality of impoverishing an entire people in an effort to punish its leaders. A free market in milk quota, as indicated by the outcome in Northern Ireland, was a recipe for impoverishing farmers rather than enhancing their incomes, the Minister was told. Environmentalists claim trade harms the environment and further impoverishes people in the developing world. Unfortunately, small impoverished regions cannot remain both isolated and liberated for long. The half island with a population of just 800,000 people is one of the most impoverished countries in the world. She was from a remote and impoverished African village, I had flown in from the other side of the world. Once an economically impoverished people are educated, they can better understand the reasons for their poverty. We think it is wrong that so many people are impoverished by local taxes. A ban on timber exports would cost the exporters their clients and impoverish many hard-working people trying to make an honest living in an already harsh economic environment. Families in these impoverished regions are barely able to survive even when they are left alone. Synonyms poor, poverty-stricken, penniless, penurious, destitute, indigent, impecunious, needy, pauperized, in distressed circumstances, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, in want, in need, down and out, on the breadline make poor, make penniless, reduce to penury, reduce to destitution, bring to ruin, bring someone to their knees, bankrupt, ruin, make insolvent 1.1 Exhaust the strength or vitality of. the soil was impoverished by annual burning Example sentencesExamples Our private hopes are encouraged, while our public hopes are impoverished. The sense among conservationists, he said, is that current rates of burning ‘are too frequent and impoverishing ecosystems.’ Reducing it to an expletive degrades the word, erases the idea, impoverishes language and makes us ever so slightly more stupid than we were before. It not only impoverishes our language, it gives young people - especially very young children - the notion that it is acceptable. All those obscenities and repeated slang phrases may be authentic but they tend to impoverish the language of his books. This is a crushing cultural loss which impoverishes us all. It lessens the map, loses chances for reflection and meta-level thought and language and impoverishes the imagination of all. Australian soils as with many trace elements have been quite impoverished but most of that has been corrected. Prolonged military confrontation… will impoverish our resources and strength, while retarding our march to civilization by at least a hundred years. ‘This death impoverishes us all,’ our short-lived leader said. British society, never more affluent, seemed spiritually impoverished and socially divided. Religious believers sometimes accuse us of having a superficial and impoverished view of the world. And the absence of the annual leaf fall - organic matter that helps hold moisture - impoverishes what soil is left. Canada was prospering in a material sense; spiritually it was becoming increasingly impoverished. America's entertainment culture was becoming increasingly impoverished: Redford saw independent film as its best hope. While the two-party system meets the known and stated political demands of many - probably most - Americans, it impoverishes our political discourse. They impoverish soil and destroy habitat, including wetlands. In this party we believe one child in poverty impoverishes us all. The promotion of the idea that private is better than public not only impoverishes our common dreams - it is also clearly untrue. This would also, I fear, gravely impoverish our language. Synonyms weakened, exhausted, drained, sapped, diminished, depleted, enervated, sucked dry, used up, spent, played out weaken, sap, exhaust, drain, empty, diminish, deplete, enervate, suck dry Origin Late Middle English (formerly also as empoverish): from Old French empoveriss-, lengthened stem of empoverir, based on povre ‘poor’.
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