impoverish
Example Sentences
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The concern among some groups is that the lower amount will impoverish people who are ill and have little prospect of getting a job anytime soon.
From BBC
Caers says that KoBold is best positioned to put the Congolese archives online and bring investment to the impoverished country.
With its outdated infrastructure, the impoverished DRC is no stranger to temporary fuel shortages.
From Barron's
In 1945 America was wealthy and powerful, Europe impoverished and weak.
In 1971, he said that by “the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
