See impoverish in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
verb
To reduce to financial insolvency:
bankrupt, break, bust, pauperize, ruin. (Slang) clean out. See moneyTo lessen or weaken severely, as by removing something essential:
deplete, drain, exhaust, sap2, use up. See give, increase, rich
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