Impoverished
ahd-5
adjective.
Reduced to poverty; poverty-stricken.
adjective.
Deprived of richness or strength; limited or depleted.
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adjective.
Reduced to
poverty
.
adjective.
Having lost a
component
, an
ingredient
, or a
faculty
or a
feature
; rendered
poor
in sth ;
depleted
.
verb.
Simple past tense and past participle of
impoverish
.
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adjective.
poor enough to need help from others
adjective.
destroyed financially
Word Usage
"Green Party candidate Claudia Rodriguez-Larrain ran what she described as an impoverished, but spirited campaign out of her home."
Equivalent
destroyed
poor
Form
impoverishedly
impoverishedness
Synonym
Words with the same meaning
Lenten
Spartan
ablated
abstemious
ascetic
verb-stem
impoverish