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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Impoverish  \Im*pov"er*ish\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Impoverished}; 
  p.  pr  &  vb  n.  {Impoverishing}.]  [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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  impoverished 
  adj  1:  poor  enough  to  need  help  from  others  [syn:  {destitute},  {indigent}, 
  {necessitous},  {needy},  {poverty-stricken}] 
  2:  destroyed  financially;  "the  broken  fortunes  of  the  family" 
  [syn:  {broken},  {wiped  out(p)}] 




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