英语词汇“impoverish”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

impoverish

/ɪmˈpɒv(ə)rɪʃ

verb [with object]

1Make (a person or area) poor: the wars had impoverished him (as adjective impoverished) impoverished villages...

The shirts will then be distributed to some of the most impoverished areas of the Macedonian capital.
The costs of treatment or even testing for the disease is seen as prohibitive in such impoverished areas.
Such companies, the argument goes, exploit poor workers abroad and impoverish workers at home by moving capital overseas.

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

1.1Exhaust the strength or vitality of: the soil was impoverished by annual burning (as adjective impoverished) an impoverished and debased language...

Prolonged military confrontation… will impoverish our resources and strength, while retarding our march to civilization by at least a hundred years.
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.

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'.

单词	impoverish
释义	impoverish /ɪmˈpɒv(ə)rɪʃ / verb [with object] 1Make (a person or area) poor: the wars had impoverished him (as adjective impoverished) impoverished villages... The shirts will then be distributed to some of the most impoverished areas of the Macedonian capital. The costs of treatment or even testing for the disease is seen as prohibitive in such impoverished areas. Such companies, the argument goes, exploit poor workers abroad and impoverish workers at home by moving capital overseas. 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 1.1Exhaust the strength or vitality of: the soil was impoverished by annual burning (as adjective impoverished) an impoverished and debased language... Prolonged military confrontation… will impoverish our resources and strength, while retarding our march to civilization by at least a hundred years. 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. 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'.
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