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impoverish 音标拼音: [ɪmp'ɑvrɪʃ] vt. 使贫穷,使枯竭 使贫穷,使枯竭 impoverish v 1: make poor [ ant: { enrich}] 2: take away [ synonym: { deprive}, { impoverish}] [ ant: { enrich}] Impoverish \ Im* pov" er* ish\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Impoverished}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Impoverishing}.] [ OF. empovrir; pref. em- ( L. in) povre poor, F. pauvre; cf. OF. apovrir, F. appauvrir, where the prefix is a-, L. ad. Cf. { Empoverish}, and see { Poor}, and {- ish}.] 1. To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land. [ 1913 Webster] 57 Moby Thesaurus words for " impoverish": ablate, absorb, assimilate, bankrupt, beggar, bleed, bleed white, break, burn up, bust, consume, denude, deplete, deplume, despoil, digest, displume, divest, drain, drain of resources, draw, draw down, dry, eat, eat up, erode, exhaust, expend, finish, finish off, flay, fleece, fold up, gobble, gobble up, ingest, milk, pauper, pauperize, pick clean, pluck, reduce, ruin, scuttle, shear, sink, skin, spend, squander, strip, strip bare, suck dry, swallow, swallow up, use up, waste away, wear away
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