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Impoverished   /ɪmpˈɑvrɪʃt/   Listen
verb
Impoverish  v. t.  (past & past part. impoverished; pres. part. impoverishing)  
1.
To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.
2.
To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land.





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"Impoverished" Quotes from Famous Books



... the seas, even in the remotest waters of the globe. The galleons and treasure ships from the colonies of Spain were captured, and their rich booty poured into the exchequer of the Dutch. The monarch of Castile was almost impoverished by these losses; and, deprived of the means to carry on the war of subjugation, he agreed, in 1609, to a ...
— Dikes and Ditches - Young America in Holland and Belguim • Oliver Optic
... period an immense number of fields were left untilled, houses were burned, trade changed its direction, millions of men migrated, were impoverished, or were enriched, and millions of Christian men professing the law of love of ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy
... States, according to their own evidence, are impoverished by it; a great amount of wretchedness and crime inevitably follows in its train; the prosperity of the North is continually checked by it; it promotes feelings of rivalry between the States; it separates our interests; makes our councils discordant; threatens the destruction of our government; ...
— An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans • Lydia Maria Child
... the rapid wheels, and revealed vistas of depressing commonplaceness. The light dust, stirred by the wheels into the sultry air, trailed behind the carriage like a long serpent. The high flaming Dragon looked down from his inaccessible sky with furious eyes upon the impoverished earth. There was a thirst for blood in the hot glister of his rays, and there was a soaring exultation because men had shed some priceless drops of the wine of life. In the midst of these open, heat-swept spaces, Trirodov, drawn at this moment into the crowded town ...
— The Created Legend • Feodor Sologub
... the faithful Canadian patriot, crippled, impoverished, sick at heart, and despairing of ever claiming Mary Lawson as his bride, returned after the burning of his native town to the ashes of his ruined home to begin life over again. A partial indemnity from the Government ...
— Neville Trueman the Pioneer Preacher • William Henry Withrow


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