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



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