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Impoverishment   /ɪmpˈɑvrɪʃmənt/   Listen
Impoverishment

noun
1.
The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions.  Synonyms: poorness, poverty.  Antonym: wealth.
2.
The act of making someone poor.  Synonyms: pauperisation, pauperization.






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"Impoverishment" Quotes from Famous Books



... that in any healthy forest; an increasingly valuable soil was being built, instead of the progressive impoverishment so often seen in ...
— Herland • Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman

... strain and relax the Muscles of their Faces in making Distinction between a Spinster in a coloured Scarf and an Handmaid in a Straw-Hat, the Worriers use the same Roughness to both, and prevail upon the Easiness of the Passengers, to the Impoverishment of your Petitioners. ...
— The Spectator, Volume 2. • Addison and Steele

... hardy as to presume to sell and retail strong beer, ale, cider, sherry wine, rum or other strong liquors or mixed drinks, and to keep common tippling-houses, thereby harboring and entertaining apprentices, Indians, negroes and other idle and dissolute persons, tending to the ruin and impoverishment of families, and all impieties and debaucheries, and if detected are unable to pay their fine." All such ...
— Grappling with the Monster • T. S. Arthur

... France and Russia, in all the countries of the Allies, and in Germany and Austria; away into Asia Minor and Egypt, in India and Japan and Italy there was mourning, the world was filled with loss and mourning and impoverishment and distress. ...
— Mr. Britling Sees It Through • H. G. Wells

... this period at any rate, the decadence of Assyria was not due to any exhaustion of the race or impoverishment of the country, but was owing Mainly to the incapacity of its kings and the lack of energy displayed by their generals. The Assyrian troops had lost none of their former valour, but their leaders had shown less foresight and ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XI. • Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton


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