Impoverish Synonyms and Antonyms

ĭm-pŏv'ər-ĭsh, -pŏv'rĭsh

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Synonyms for Impoverish

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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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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deplete
To deplete is defined as to diminish or use up the supply of something.
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drain
To fatigue or spend emotionally or physically:
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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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beggar
To exhaust the resources of; to outdo.
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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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deprive
To take something away (keep it away); deny someone of something.
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Antonyms for Impoverish

enrich
To enrich is defined as to improve something or make something better.
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Words Related to Impoverish

ruin
(Archaic) To go or come to ruin
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money
To reduce to financial insolvency
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give
To offer in good faith; pledge:
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increase
To become greater in size, amount, degree, etc.; grow
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rich
(Obsolete) To enrich.
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enslave
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Impoverish Sentence Examples

  • They are also gross feeders and impoverish the soil.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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