impoverished

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[ US /ˌɪmˈpɑvɹɪʃt/ ]
[ UK /ɪmpˈɒvəɹɪʃt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. poor enough to need help from others
  2. destroyed financially
    the broken fortunes of the family
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How To Use impoverished 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.
  • 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.
  • They are often minorities, almost always impoverished and disabled by their illness.
  • 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.
  • In the mid-19th century the Norwegian government, eager to colonise with people a terrain it owned in name only, offered free land here to impoverished farmers from the south.
  • An impoverished call forth a filial son.
  • I could imagine the garlicked sausages to have been a remnant left in a mouldy cupboard by some impoverished hidalgo of a hundred years back. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
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