deprive, impoverish
(verb) take away
impoverish
(verb) make poor
Source: WordNet® 3.1
impoverish (third-person singular simple present impoverishes, present participle impoverishing, simple past and past participle impoverished)
(transitive) To make poor.
(transitive) To weaken in quality; to deprive of some strength or richness.
(intransitive) To become poor.
• ruin
• (weaken, deprive): deplete
• enrich
Source: Wiktionary
Im*pov"er*ish, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Impoverished; p. pr. & vb. n. Impoverishing.] Etym: [OF. empovrir; pref. em- (L. in) + povre poor, F. pauvre; cf. OF. apovrir, F. appauvrir, where the prefix is a-, L. ad. Cf. Empoverish, and see Poor, and -ish.]
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
14 November 2024
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