impoverish
verb (used with object)
to reduce to poverty.
have impoverished
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present perfectof impoverish.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Instead of well-resourced schools we will have impoverished ones.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024
Hyperinflation and its common companion, chronic shortages of food and medicine, have impoverished almost all of the country’s 31 million people.
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2018
In municipalities like Ferguson, that would mean tackling the economic problems that have impoverished the town, its housing stock, and its residents to begin with.
From MSNBC ● Sep. 9, 2014
Last year, residents of the village of Wukan in southern China took to the streets protesting real estate deals they say have impoverished residents while enriching local leaders.
From Time ● Mar. 2, 2012
He seems to have impoverished himself chiefly by taking upon himself the care and cost of his brother and brother-in-law's children.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
