Definition of "impoverisher" []

• Someone who impoverishes. (noun)

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• "It's called the "impoverisher" because it's so painful that people can barely walk, much less farm or make a living."
• "On the contrary Aristides, by his poverty, made justice odious, as if it were the pest and impoverisher of a family and beneficial to all, rather than to those that were endowed with it."
• "“War, then,” he said, “war, the grand impoverisher, is also a creator of wealth which it wastes and devours?”"