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Definition of Impoverish
Impoverish

To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.

To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land.

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Impoverish Quotations

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Woodrow Wilson

When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
Xun Zi

Impoverish Translations

impoverish in French is appauvrissent, appauvris, appauvrissez, appauvrir
impoverish in German is arm machen, verarmen
impoverish in Spanish is empobrecer
impoverish in Swedish is utarma


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