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impoverish - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'impoverish' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Impoverish [ v. t.]
- To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.
- To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land.

Meaning of 'impoverish' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . impoverish [ v]
Meaning (1):
- take away
Example in sentence:
  • pull the old soup cans from the supermarket shelf