Impoverish meaning

Verb: impoverish

Pronunciation: (im’pó-vu-rish)

Impoverish meaning:

• Make poor
• Exhaust the strength or vitality of or become poor.

Synonyms: immiserate, penury, destitute, indigence, pauperism

Derived forms: impoverishing, impoverishes, impoverished

Quotations: Frederic Bastiat – They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.

Frank Lloyd Wright – The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson – He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.

Donald Rumsfeld – The Republic of Korea, an impoverished and devastated nation over a half-century ago, now has one of the world’s most powerful economies and is an important democracy with a large and increasingly capable armed force.

Mary McCarthy – Our mission is to provide legal services to impoverished individuals, and advance the rights and protections of the immigrant population.

Sample sentences:

1. The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
2. The pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.
3. Barring people from the country because of their ideas skews and impoverishes political debate inside the United States.
4. Affliction comes to all not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but wise not to make us despondent, but its darkness to refresh us, as the night refreshes the day not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field.
5. Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world in order to set up a shadow world of meanings.
6. Lap dancing in Ireland is about harvesting girls in impoverished parts of the world and exploiting them.
7. We are looking for savings that don’t impact the impoverished person.
8. It’s not child’s play. It comes from a warrior culture where people are coming from the harshest conditions. One of the reasons that the traditions are so powerful is that it’s a direct response to the impoverished conditions they live in.
9. The partnership makes a commitment. You do your part and we’ll do ours and not impoverish you.
10. We also serve clear notice that this agreement is only a first step on a long journey. We will continue to pressure world leaders to cancel the debts of all impoverished countries in the months and years ahead.