impoverish
verb (used with object)
Origin of impoverish
Synonyms for impoverish
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Contemporary Examples of impoverish
These twin deficits enrich our frenemies and impoverish present and future Americans.
Rosner seemed to think such boycotts simply serve to impoverish our knowledge of these crucial issues.
Their basic claim is that if government spends more now, deficits will rise, and that will impoverish our grandchildren.
In short, deficits undertaken to finance productive investment not only do not impoverish our grandchildren, they enrich them.
Historical Examples of impoverish
Giving does not impoverish either her ample purse or her generous heart.
Ernest LinwoodCaroline Lee Hentz
My want cannot impoverish that inexhaustible treasury of grace!
The Faithful PromiserJohn Ross Macduff
Instead of hallowing the life it will debase and impoverish it.
My Daily Meditation for the Circling YearJohn Henry Jowett
And you expect me to impoverish myself for the sake of Champney Googe?
Flamsted quarriesMary E. Waller
Each generation had done what it could to impoverish the land and never to improve it.
The Comings of Cousin AnnEmma Speed Sampson