impoverish

The Luddite movement, which predated the Swing Riots, was led by textile workers convinced that power-operated looms would permanently impoverish the middle class.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

Botswana's president Mokgweetsi Masisi told German media this would only impoverish Botswanans.

From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2024

Niger relies heavily on foreign aid, and sanctions could further impoverish its more than 25 million people.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 1, 2023

The judge said those convicted had by their actions helped impoverish Mozambique's people.

From Reuters ● Dec. 7, 2022

My wife’s money has all gone to him, and I will not impoverish myself further.

From Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family by George Manville Fenn

“The selfish-gene model increasingly impoverishes both scientific and popular views of genetics and evolution,” David Dobbs wrote in an essay for Aeon.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

But soil drainage gradually impoverishes the land, posing a threat to local farmers and releasing the CO2 captured by the peatland which are important carbon sinks.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025

"This debate impoverishes democracy. It's a scrappy debate, in which you provoke, you use debauchery, you joke around," said Janones, who denied accusations that he uses fake news.

From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 2022

Richness impoverishes you; it takes away from us the best we have.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2015

The effective conclusion of her involvement as early as the end of 3.2 impoverishes the rest of the play.

From The Noble Spanish Soldier by Thomas Dekker

The actors will soon slip into their 1967 costumes as the impoverished Greasers and the privileged Socs — and spend the next two hours hating each other onstage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Outside of tourism and picking matsutake mushrooms, there are few other sources of wealth in this rugged, historically impoverished corner of China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

He was the genuine artifact, the son of an impoverished Minnesota miner; a lumberjack and a steelworker in his youth.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

Unlike Burr’s distinguished bloodline, which gave his aristocratic bearing its roots and biological rationale, Hamilton’s more dashing and consistently audacious style developed as a willful personal wager against the odds of his impoverished origins.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Pete Rodriguez, the brotherhood’s western district vice president, called the proposal “outrageous” and suggested it could worsen the homelessness crisis by impoverishing workers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2024

The economic decisions that enriched some people while impoverishing others were made in distant cities and, for the most part, in foreign languages, and few people could discern their origins.

From Scientific American ● May 31, 2023

Independence came at a tremendous cost, however, since France forced the new republic to pay steep indemnities to compensate French citizens for their property losses for many years, impoverishing the new nation.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

The suspect in the killing, 41-year-old Tetsuya Yamagami, accused the church of impoverishing his family, according to police.

From Reuters ● Sep. 7, 2022

With us, alas, too frequent guest, impoverishing abundance by inordinate desires, and burdening too many with cares and anxieties beyond reason and beyond strength!

From The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities by Samuel Osgood