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English Dictionary: impoverishment	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
impoverishment n the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions Synonym(s): poverty, poorness, impoverishment Antonym(s): wealth, wealthiness the act of making someone poor Synonym(s): pauperization, pauperisation, impoverishment
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Impoverishment \Impov"erish*ment\, n. [Cf. OF. empoverissement, and F. appauvrissement.] The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished; reduction to poverty. --Sir W. Scott.