impoverished

Meaning

Adj

1. Reduced to poverty.
2. Having lost a component, an ingredient, a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted.

Verb

simple past and past participle of impoverish

impoverish

1. (transitive) To make poor.
2. (transitive) To weaken in quality; to deprive of some strength or richness.
3. (intransitive) To become poor.

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Synonyms

poor

destitute

needy

miserable

indigent

poverty-stricken

pitiable

pauperized

exhausted

become poor

broke

insolvent

broken

necessitous

wiped out

wretched

grow poor

penniless

depauperated

ruined

sterile

become impoverished

unenviable

used up

vacant

void

wasted

in need

depauperate

overcropped

be depleted

not wealthy

abject

seedy looking

bare

barren

be exhausted

decayed

depleted

destitude

dismal

empty

forlorn

hollow

homeless

inadequate

lax

meager

moneyless

pitiful

Translations

appauvri

pauvre

verarmt

empobrecido

impoverito

vide

arm

pobre

arm

mísero

inops

empobrit

φτωχός

behoeftig

dans le besoin

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪmˈpɑvəɹɪʃt/