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US
/ˌɪmˈpɑvɹɪʃt/
]
[ UK /ɪmpˈɒvəɹɪʃt/ ]
[ UK /ɪmpˈɒvəɹɪʃt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- poor enough to need help from others
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destroyed financially
the broken fortunes of the family
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