Impoverish Definition

ĭm-pŏvər-ĭsh, -pŏvrĭsh
impoverishes, impoverishing
verb
impoverishes, impoverishing
To make poor; reduce to poverty.
Webster's New World
To deprive of strength, resources, etc.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Impoverish

  • Middle English empoverishen from Old French empovrir empovriss- en- causative pref. en–1 povre poor (from Latin pauper pauper)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Borrowing from Old French empoverir (modern French appauvrir), from em- + povre, from Latin pauper (“poor”) (English poor).

    From Wiktionary

Impoverish Sentence Examples

  • They are also gross feeders and impoverish the soil.

  • Their worldly circumstances were easy, though they were always ready to impoverish themselves for the sake of others.

  • Many regions suffer permanently from deficient rainfall; in others, owing to the absence of irrigation works, the water supply is lost, while the burning of the grass at the end of summer, a practice adopted by many farmers, tends to impoverish the soil and render it arid.

  • Teens from affluent or impoverish homes both can and do abuse drugs.

  • Two parts must not move in consecutive octaves or fifths, because by so doing they unaccountably reinforce each other by an amount by which they impoverish the rest of the harmony.

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