impoverish
verb (used with object)
to reduce to poverty.
was impoverishing
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past progressiveof impoverish.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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His book’s title replicated the title of a scalding 1896 editorial in the Emporia Gazette by that paper’s famous editor William Allen White, who believed that populist hostility to sophisticates and wealth-creators was impoverishing Kansas.
From Washington Post
This increase follows from British laws restricting rubber production in her colonies, laws passed to do away with overproduction that was impoverishing the industry.
From Time Magazine Archive
The loss of the American trade was impoverishing them.
From Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
He saw clearly that war was impoverishing and ruining the country, and this led him to adopt the most wise and vigorous measures to secure peace within his own flourishing territories.
From The Empire of Russia by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
