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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The drivers include extreme weather—drought followed by flooding—and the economic crises that have impoverished growers and left them unable to upgrade their agricultural practices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
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
If the war ceased to-morrow it would have impoverished all Europe beyond recovery for generations, but that poverty, by itself, will probably be the least of its evils.
From Six days of the Irish Republic A Narrative and Critical Account of the Latest Phase of Irish Politics by Louis George Redmond-Howard
