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Definition of "impoverish" []

  • To reduce to poverty; make poor. (verb-transitive)
  • To deprive of natural richness or strength: impoverish the soil by overuse. See Synonyms at deplete. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "impoverish" in a sentence
  • "Current global economic turmoil is unlikely to "impoverish" South"
  • "It is a perversion of the truth to state that dams "impoverish" citizens."
  • "Brad Shinn writes that I pervert the truth when I state that dams "impoverish" citizens."