impoverish
verb (used with object)
to reduce to poverty.
impoverishes
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present tense formof impoverish (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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But soil drainage gradually impoverishes the land, posing a threat to local farmers and releasing the CO2 captured by the peatland which are important carbon sinks.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025
"This debate impoverishes democracy. It's a scrappy debate, in which you provoke, you use debauchery, you joke around," said Janones, who denied accusations that he uses fake news.
From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 2022
But the semantic shift impoverishes our ethical vocabulary.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2014
Because this culture of greed impoverishes all of us, it is, to call it by its true name, destruction.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 29, 2012
Experience has proved that the cultivation of a plant for several successive years on the same soil impoverishes it, or the plant degenerates.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd
