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impoverished
 
Adjective impoverished has 2 senses
  1. destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken - poor enough to need help from others
    Antonym: rich (indirect, via poor)
  2. broken, wiped out, impoverished - destroyed financially; "the broken fortunes of the family"
    Antonym: preserved (indirect, via destroyed)
Verb impoverish has 2 senses
  1. impoverish - make poor
    --1 is one way to     deprive
    Antonyms: enrich
    Derived form: noun impoverishment2
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
  2. deprive, impoverish - take away
    --2 is one way to worsen, decline
    Derived form: noun impoverishment2
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody of something
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