Impoverished Definition

ĭm-pŏvə-rĭsht, -pŏvrĭsht
adjective
Reduced to poverty; poverty-stricken.
Pledged aid to the impoverished, war-torn country.
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Deprived of richness or strength; limited or depleted.
An impoverished vocabulary.
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Having lost a component, an ingredient, or a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted.

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verb

Simple past tense and past participle of impoverish.

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Impoverished Sentence Examples

  • The population was not only impoverished and reduced in numbers but broken in spirit.

  • Drought and famine came in 1860, and then upon the impoverished state came the strain of the Civil War.

  • The soil is generally rocky and unfertile, and the population impoverished, scanty and ignorant.

  • Primary PEM is common in impoverished areas of developing countries.

  • The destruction of property was enormous, the hardest-working and best tax-paying element in the country was destroyed, or impoverished, and where the breadwinners were killed the women and children were left destitute.

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