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impoverish |
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impoverishment
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impoverishment
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun impoverishment has 2 senses
- impoverishment(n = noun.state) poorness, poverty - the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions; Array is a kind of financial condition
- impoverishment(n = noun.act) pauperisation, pauperization - the act of making someone poor; Array is a kind of deprivation, privation
has particulars: deprivation, neediness, privation, want, destitution, indigence, need, pauperism, pauperization, penury, impecuniousness, pennilessness, penuriousness
Derived forms verb impoverish2, verb impoverish1
CIDE DICTIONARY
impoverishment, n. [Cf. OF. empoverissement, and F. appauvrissement.].
The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished; reduction to poverty. Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
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