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Definition of Impoverishes
1. impoverish [v] - See also: impoverish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impoverishes
Literary usage of Impoverishes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Effective English: Junior by Philander Priestley Claxton, James McGinniss (1921)
"Slang impoverishes Your Language.—The chief objection to the excessive use of
slang is that it weakens or impoverishes your language. ..."
2. Illustrations of Political Economy.: By Harriet Martineau by Harriet Martineau (1834)
"PROSPERITY impoverishes IN DEMERARA. ALFRED was not at all disposed to gainsay
what his father protested about Mr. ..."
3. Speeches, Addresses, and Letters on Industrial and Financial Questions: To by William Darrah Kelley (1872)
"FREE TRADE EXHAUSTS LAND AND impoverishes FARMERS. I have said, sir, that a nation
cannot prosper by foreign trade and agriculture alone ; and our bitter ..."
4. The Use and Abuse of Money by William Cunningham (1891)
"... to a Government in terms which may lead to his drawing interest in a fashion
which exhausts and impoverishes the country where his money is placed. ..."
5. Pleas for Protection Examined by Augustus Mongredien, Cobden Club (London, England) (1888)
"Permanent excess of imports impoverishes, and permanent excess of exports enriches,
a country. This is the reverse of the fact. ..."
6. The Slavery Question. by John Lawrence (1854)
"Slavery utterly impoverishes its victims. The earth is an inheritance bestowed
upon man by the common Father of all; hence every human being has an ..."
7. The Art of Breathing as the Basis of Tone-production: ("the Old Italian by Leo Kofler (1890)
"The Habit of Stooping Causes Dulness of the Brain, and impoverishes the Blood.
... I believe there is nothing that weakens the lungs, impoverishes the blood ..."
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