Hypertext Webster Gateway: "impoverished"
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) 1.7 (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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