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Impoverishment synonyms

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beggary
Extreme poverty
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  1. Extreme poverty
  2. The state or condition of being a beggar.
  3. Beggars considered as a group.
destitution
The state of being destitute; esp., abject poverty
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  1. The state of being destitute; esp., abject poverty
  2. A deprivation or lack; a deficiency.
  3. Extreme want of resources or the means of subsistence; complete poverty.
impecuniousness
The property of being impecunious.
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  1. The property of being impecunious.
indigence
The state of being poor; poverty.
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  1. The state of being poor; poverty.
  2. The condition of being indigent
need
Something required or wanted; a requisite:
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  1. Something required or wanted; a requisite:
  2. A condition of poverty or misfortune:
  3. A condition of poverty, or extreme want
neediness
The state of being needy
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  1. The state of being needy
  2. The characteristic of being needy.
pennilessness
The state or quality of being penniless.
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  1. The state or quality of being penniless.
penuriousness
The quality of being penurious.
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  1. The quality of being penurious.
penury
Lack of money, property, or necessities; extreme poverty; destitution
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  1. Lack of money, property, or necessities; extreme poverty; destitution
  2. Extreme want or poverty; destitution.
poverty
Deficiency in necessary properties or desirable qualities, or in a specific quality, etc.; inadequacy
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  1. Deficiency in necessary properties or desirable qualities, or in a specific quality, etc.; inadequacy
  2. Renunciation made by a member of a religious order of the right to own property.
  3. The condition or quality of being poor; indigence; need
privation
Lack of the basic necessities or comforts of life:
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  1. Lack of the basic necessities or comforts of life:
  2. Lack of the ordinary necessities of life
  3. The condition of being without a specified quality or attribute:
want
Something desired:
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  1. Something desired:
  2. A wish or desire for something; craving
  3. Pressing need; destitution:
debilitation
The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness.
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  1. The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness.
depletion
The consumption of a resource faster than it can be replenished
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  1. The consumption of a resource faster than it can be replenished
  2. The gradual using up or destruction of capital assets, esp. of natural resources
  3. A depleting or being depleted
Find another word for impoverishment. In this page you can discover 21 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for impoverishment, like: beggary, destitution, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, indigence, need, neediness, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury and poverty.

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  • The economic and moral condition of the peasantry was little improved by freedom, and in many districts there were signs of positive impoverishment and demoralization.

  • In the higher parts there are fine plains where Glaser found numerous Himyaritic remains, and which he considers were undoubtedly cultivated formerly, but they have long fallen out of cultivation owing to denudation and desiccation - the impoverishment of the country from these causes is increasing.

  • undermined as far as he could the right of control by the states-general, the right of remonstrance by the parlements, and the communal franchises, while ensuring the impoverishment of the municipalities by his fiscal methods.

  • His genius, assisted by the impoverishment of two generations, was like the oak which admits beneath its shade none but the smallest of saplings.

  • The P0 valley and the valleys of Emilia and the Romagna are best adapted for rice, but the area is diminishing on account of the competition of foreign rice and of the impoverishment of the soil by too intense cultivation.

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