Impoverish

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  • transitive verb. To reduce to poverty; make poor.
  • transitive verb. To deprive of richness or strength.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make poor; reduce to poverty or indigence.
  • To make poor in quality or character; reduce in vigor, capacity, productiveness, etc.; cause to deteriorate.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence.
  • transitive verb. To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Make poor.
  • verb. Weaken in quality; deprive of some strength or richness.
  • verb. Become poor.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. take away
  • verb. make poor
    • Word Usage
    "Current global economic turmoil is unlikely to "impoverish" South"
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    enrich  
    cross-reference
    exhaust  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    civilize  defenceless  degrade  delude  desolate  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ablate  absorb  assimilate  bankrupt  beggar  
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