impoverish

[ UK /ɪmpˈɒvəɹɪʃ/ ]
[ US /ˌɪmˈpɑvɹɪʃ/ ]
VERB
  1. take away
  2. make poor
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How To Use impoverish In A Sentence

  • The residents are mostly impoverished families who survive by collecting recyclable garbage.
  • In this sense, he saw scientific psychology as anti-life: the more the critical reason dominates, the more impoverished life becomes; but the more myth we are capable of making conscious, the more life we integrate.
  • One must guard against the misinterpretation of this term impoverishment as compared with the state of affairs which would have developed in the absence of credit expansion and the boom. Is Something Better Than Nothing?
  • The plane in which the Europeans arrive in San Theodoros is shown flying over an impoverished shanty town.
  • Based on a Korean fairy-tale, this light and witty piece of chinoiserie tells the story of a Mandarin's daughter who is engaged to a rich Ambassador but loves an impoverished youth.
  • They were impoverished by a prolonged spell of unemployment.
  • I have to judge whether what I'm buying enriches my life more than doing so impoverishes it. A Complex Shadow
  • They are often minorities, almost always impoverished and disabled by their illness.
  • She posits that the gendering of the marketing ultimately stifles creativity and impoverishes the fan culture, if any, of the novel. Archive 2009-04-01
  • In this paper, I will try to show that these contributions fail to articulate an adequate concept of embodied personhood for anthropology because they presuppose impoverished notions of semiosis and language.
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