impoverish
verb/ɪmˈpɒv(ə)ɹɪʃ/
Etymology
From Middle English empoverishen, impoverishen, empoverischen, enpoverisshen, Anglo-Norman empoveriss-, from Old French empoverir, from em- + povre, from Latin pauper (“poor”) (English poor).
- derived from empoverir
- derived from empoveriss-
- inherited from empoverishen
Definitions
To make poor.
To weaken in quality
To weaken in quality; to deprive of some strength or richness.
- That exuberant crop quickly impoverishes any fertile soil.
- To many of us, organized religion is obnoxious. Yet if we throw out the sense of peace, order and joy that flows from religious ritual, we impoverish ourselves.
To become poor.
The neighborhood
- synonymbeggar
- synonymdepauperate
- synonymdepauperize
- synonymdestitute
- synonymembeggar
- synonymempoverish
- synonymimmiserate
- synonymimpoor
- synonymimpoverish
- synonympauperize
- synonympoor
- synonympoverish
- antonymenrich
- neighbordeprive
- neighborbankrupt
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for impoverish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA