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Impoverished   /ɪmpˈɑvrɪʃt/   Listen
verb
Impoverish  v. t.  (past & past part. impoverished; pres. part. impoverishing)  
1.
To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.
2.
To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land.





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"Impoverished" Quotes from Famous Books



... the treasury department advised me to collect at once, inasmuch as he thought that the capital would be soon evacuated. I took him for a timorous prophet, and told him I would wait until I rejoined the army, when I should need it. I did not know, as he did, the impoverished and critical ...
— Reminiscences of a Rebel • Wayland Fuller Dunaway
... lively sisters of an impoverished Connaught family, desires to make money for the sake of her delicate mother. Cynthia and her star-struck sister Befind go to London, the former to open a bonnet shop, which becomes a great success, and the other to pursue the study of ...
— By Conduct and Courage • G. A. Henty
... the inevitable result to him, and I now exhort you to come out West. Here lies the seat of the coming empire; and from the West, when our task is done, we will make short work of Charleston and Richmond, and the impoverished coast of the Atlantic. ...
— The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete • William T. Sherman
... both civil and military, his courtiers, his ministers, demanded more ample supplies from the impoverished prince, and were not contented with the same simplicity of living which had satisfied their ancestors. The prince himself began to regard an increase of pomp and splendor as requisite to support the ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. - From Elizabeth to James I. • David Hume
... again. So it had been planned. As the shadows fell, Lygon roused himself from his trance with a shiver. It was not cold, but in him there was a nervous agitation, making him cold from head to foot; his body seemed as impoverished as his mind. Looking with heavy-lidded eyes across the prairie, he saw in the distance the barracks of the Riders of the Plains and the jail near by, and his shuddering ceased. There was where he belonged, ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker


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