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impoverish

/im-pov-er-ish, -pov-rish/US // ɪmˈpɒv ər ɪʃ, -ˈpɒv rɪʃ //UK // (ɪmˈpɒvərɪʃ) //

穷困潦倒,贫穷,贫穷化,贫穷的

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • 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.