impoverished : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: impoverished	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
impoverished adj poor enough to need help from others [syn: destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken] destroyed financially; "the broken fortunes of the family" Synonym(s): broken, wiped out(p), impoverished
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Impoverish \Impov"erish\, 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.