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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IMPOV'ERISHED, pp. Reduced to poverty; exhausted.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: poor enough to need help from others [syn: destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken]
2: destroyed financially; "the broken fortunes of the family" [syn: broken, wiped out, impoverished]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1862 of a fauna or flora represented by few species or individuals

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see impoverish

Moby Thesaurus

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