Impoverish synonyms

ĭm-pŏv'ər-ĭsh, -pŏv'rĭsh

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bust
To break or tame (a horse).
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make poor
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bankrupt
To ruin:
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exhaust
To empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to exhaust a well, or a treasury.
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ruin (related)
(Archaic) To go or come to ruin
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beggar
To exhaust the resources of; to outdo.
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deplete
To deplete is defined as to diminish or use up the supply of something.
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drain
To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.
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reduce
(Medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
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weaken
(Intransitive) To become weaker.
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break
To exchange for smaller monetary units:
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pauperize
To make someone a pauper; to impoverish
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clean out
To clean, especially to tidy by removing the contents.
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sap
To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
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use up
(Of a resource) to consume, deplete or exhaust
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money (related)
To reduce to financial insolvency
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give (related)
To offer in good faith; pledge:
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increase (related)
To become greater in size, amount, degree, etc.; grow
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rich (related)
(Obsolete) To enrich.
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deprive
To take something away (keep it away); deny someone of something.
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enrich (antonym)
To enrich is defined as to improve something or make something better.
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marginalize (related)
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destabilised (related)
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impoverished (related)
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demoralize (related)
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enslave (related)
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dehumanize (related)
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underdeveloped (related)
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Find another word for impoverish. In this page you can discover 28 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for impoverish, like: bust, make poor, bankrupt, exhaust, ruin, beggar, deplete, drain, reduce, weaken and break.
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Impoverish Sentence Examples

  • Their worldly circumstances were easy, though they were always ready to impoverish themselves for the sake of others.

  • They are also gross feeders and impoverish the soil.

  • Two parts must not move in consecutive octaves or fifths, because by so doing they unaccountably reinforce each other by an amount by which they impoverish the rest of the harmony.

  • Many regions suffer permanently from deficient rainfall; in others, owing to the absence of irrigation works, the water supply is lost, while the burning of the grass at the end of summer, a practice adopted by many farmers, tends to impoverish the soil and render it arid.

  • Teens from affluent or impoverish homes both can and do abuse drugs.

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