Hypertext Webster Gateway: "impoverishment"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Impoverishment \Im*pov"er*ish*ment\, n. [Cf. OF.
empoverissement, and F. appauvrissement.]
The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished;
reduction to poverty. --Sir W. Scott.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
impoverishment
n 1: the state of having little or no money and few or no
material possessions [syn: {poverty}, {poorness}] [ant:
{wealth}]
2: the act of making poor [syn: {pauperization}, {pauperisation}]
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