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IMPOVERISHED
broken, wiped out, impoverished
(adjective) destroyed financially; “the broken fortunes of the family”
destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken
(adjective) poor enough to need help from others
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
impoverished (comparative more impoverished, superlative most impoverished)
Reduced to poverty.
Having lost a component, an ingredient, or a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted.
Synonyms
• See also impoverished
Verb
impoverished
simple past tense and past participle of impoverish
Source: Wiktionary
IMPOVERISH
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
Word of the Day
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LEAVE
(verb) go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness; “She left a mess when she moved out”; “His good luck finally left him”; “her husband left her after 20 years of marriage”; “she wept thinking she had been left behind”
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