- past tense form of impoverish.
- past participle of impoverish.
impoverished
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It also called for "economic stabilisation" in the impoverished country, which "might narrow the pool from which footsoldiers are drawn".
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
Outside music, her philanthropy gave scholarships to impoverished students and supplied more than 200 million books to young readers.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Set in Egypt during the 1930s and ’40s, the first entry in Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet is a tragic romance between an impoverished Irish writer and the beautiful, mysterious Justine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
BANGKOK—The internal watchdog of the World Bank’s private-investment arm found that Cambodian microfinance lenders harmed impoverished borrowers by pressuring them to keep paying back loans they couldn’t afford.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Though he was raised by an impoverished working-class couple—his foster father was a glazier—it turns out that his birth father was a general and his mother was an aristocrat.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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