| 单词 | impoverish |
| 释义 | impoverish (once / 1352 pages) v To impoverish is to take away a person's livelihood. When a drought ruins a farmer's crop and he has nothing to harvest, his bad luck may leave him and his family impoverished, or poor. The Latin prefix in- is changed to im when in front of a word starting with the letter p-, but its meaning "in" or "into" stays the same. With roots in the French word povre meaning "poor," impoverish means to make poor or drive someone "into poverty." The 2010 earthquake in Haiti left over a million people impoverished, destroying everything they owned. WORD FAMILYimpoverish: impoverished, impoverishes, impoverishing, impoverishment+/impoverishment: impoverishments USAGE EXAMPLES“The vision was to continue to work with impoverished farmers throughout Indonesia to create products and bring them to international markets,” Schilling said. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) It all centers on Zhengzhou, a city of 6 million people in an impoverished region of China. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) Now federal officials allege he funneled $600 million in fraudulent claims to this impoverished pocket of Appalachia, and the government turned off the spigot. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1v make poor Ant|Hypo|Hyper enrich make wealthy or richer reduce lessen and make more modest beggar, pauperise, pauperizereduce to beggary bankrupt, break, ruin, smashreduce to bankruptcy deprive keep from having, keeping, or obtaining 2v take away Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper deprive enrich make better or improve in quality disestablish deprive (an established church) of its status decline, worsen grow worse |
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