- 1impoverish somebody to make someone poor These changes are likely to impoverish single-parent families even further.
- 2impoverish something to make something worse in quality Intensive cultivation has impoverished the soil.
impoverish
verbNAmE//ɪmˈpɑvərɪʃ//
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they impoverish he / she / it impoverishes
past simple impoverished
-ing form impoverishing
noun [uncountable] the rapid impoverishment of the people cultural impoverishmentSee impoverish in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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