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be impoverished

VERB

lose

Synonyms

STRONGEST

drop fail forget give up squander suffer surrender waste

STRONG

bereave capitulate consume default deplete disinherit displace dispossess dissipate divest drain exhaust expend forfeit lavish misplace miss misspend oust relinquish rob sacrifice yield

WEAK

be careless be reduced become poorer fail to keep fall short pass up suffer loss use up

Antonyms

STRONGEST

fight hoard save win

STRONG

accumulate collect fill gather give hold keep refuse starve take

WEAK

achieve confront face hold on to maintain meet succeed

Example Sentences

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No one should be left behind or be impoverished by these policies, "otherwise it will be a problem for democracy", he said.

From BBC • Jul. 22, 2023

But our way of existing will be impoverished in the process.

From Scientific American • Jul. 12, 2023

If current trends continue, Reich said, swaths of boreal forests “will be impoverished, and they might even fall apart or collapse” over the next half-century unless warming slows.

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2022

Will our children be impoverished by better access to pre-kindergarten schooling?

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2021

And so Sully, Economics, L, XII, XVI, was in favor of laws regulating outlay mainly from "mercantilistic" reasons, that the country might not be impoverished by the purchase of foreign expensive articles.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm

be impoverished

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