impoverish 的定义
- to reduce to poverty: a country impoverished by war.
- to make poor in quality, productiveness, etc.; exhaust the strength or richness of: Bad farming practices impoverished the soil.
impoverish 近义词
make poor
更多impoverish例句
- For two centuries, elites across the world have undermined Haitian sovereignty and impoverished its people.
- If we lose the genetic diversity of native plants, we’re impoverishing our landscapes and making them less resilient.
- These twin deficits enrich our frenemies and impoverish present and future Americans.
- Rosner seemed to think such boycotts simply serve to impoverish our knowledge of these crucial issues.
- Their basic claim is that if government spends more now, deficits will rise, and that will impoverish our grandchildren.
- In short, deficits undertaken to finance productive investment not only do not impoverish our grandchildren, they enrich them.
- Giving does not impoverish either her ample purse or her generous heart.
- Father Castel was a madman, but a good man upon the whole; he was sorry to see me thus impoverish myself to no purpose.
- Spanish policy had devised a still more ingenious contrivance gradually to impoverish the richest families of the land.
- In the system we are discussing, to allow them to export crowns would be to allow them to impoverish themselves.
- Sometimes nature appears to spend all her intellectual and moral wealth on the father, and almost to impoverish the sons.