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Definition of Impoverished

1. Adjective. Poor enough to need help from others.

2. Adjective. Destroyed financially. "The broken fortunes of the family"

Definition of Impoverished

1. Adjective. Reduced to poverty. ¹

2. Adjective. Having lost a component, an ingredient, or a faculty or a feature ; rendered poor in sth ; depleted. ¹

3. Verb. (past of impoverish) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Impoverished

1. impoverish [v] - See also: impoverish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Impoverished

impotentia impotently impotents impots impound impoundage impoundages impounded impounder impounders

impounding impoundment impoundments impounds impoverish impoverished (current term) impoverishedly impoverishedness impoverisher impoverishers

impoverishes impoverishing impoverishment impoverishments impoverisht impower impowered impowering impowers impowre

Literary usage of Impoverished

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of the United Netherlands, from the Death of William the Silent to by John Lothrop Motley (1900)
"... of the bridge—impoverished condition of Parma— Patriots attempt Bois- lo-Duc—Their misconduct—Failure of the enterprise—The Schelde bridge ..."

2. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"Secondly, they impoverished parish priests, by Abbots rob decrying their performances, and magnifying their ..."

3. The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853)
"The reason is plain, Louis must needs have been impoverished not only by his loss of subjects, but by his acquisition of lands. STEELE. T. No. 201. ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"After the drained and impoverished republic had fallen into the arms of France (reign of Charles VI), the Compera was reorganized by Marshal Boucicaut, ..."

5. Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1906)
"The impoverished South Renate Ex. Doc. no. 2, 39 Cong., 1 Bess., p. 38: Report of General Carl Schurz to President Johnson. Schurz was sent by the President ..."

6. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"Completely impoverished or exhausted. Knick. Mag., xlviii. 288 (Sept.). 1865 See FIGHT THE TIGER. 1856 We hope that you won't be dead-broke before you leave ..."

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