IMPOVERISH
\ɪmpˈɒvəɹɪʃ], \ɪmpˈɒvəɹɪʃ], \ɪ_m_p_ˈɒ_v_ə_ɹ_ɪ_ʃ]\
Definitions of IMPOVERISH
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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deprive of status or authority; "he was divested of his rights and his title"; "They disinvested themselves of their rights"
By Princeton University
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To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.
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To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land.
By Oddity Software
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To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.
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To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land.
By Noah Webster.
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To make poor: to exhaust the resources (as of a nation), or fertility (as of the soil).
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IMPOVERISHMENT.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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