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impoverish 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/imˈpäv(ə)riSH/,
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impoverished, past participle; impoverished, past tense; impoverishing, present participle; impoverishes, 3rd person singular present;
  1. Make (a person or area) poor
    • - they discourage investment and impoverish their people
    • - impoverished peasant farmers
  2. Exhaust the strength, vitality, or natural fertility of
    • - the soil was impoverished by annual burning
    • - an impoverished and debased language
  1. make poor
  2. deprive: take away
  3. (impoverished) destitute: poor enough to need help from others
  4. (impoverished) broken: destroyed financially; "the broken fortunes of the family"
  5. (impoverishment) poverty: the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
  6. (impoverishment) pauperization: the act of making someone poor
  7. (Impoverished) Poverty is the lack of basic human needs, such as clean water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter, because of the inability to afford them. This is also referred to as absolute poverty or destitution. ...
  8. (impoverished) Reduced to poverty; Having lost a component, an ingredient, or a faculty or a feature ; rendered poor in sth ; depleted
  9. (impoverished) very poor, without money
  10. To create a situation of poverty, in which people’s material needs are not being met.