Definition of "impoverishing" [impoverishing]

• Present participle of impoverish. (verb)

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• "I could not bear the idea of impoverishing him by my visit, and I consulted my faithful Mysseri, who not only assured me that I might safely offer money to the vice-consul, but recommended that I should give no more to him than to “the others,” meaning any other peasant."
• "I could not bear the idea of impoverishing him by my visit, and I consulted my faithful"
• "Ben Fogle says Labour's Vetting and Barring Scheme is 'impoverishing' a generation of youngsters"