- past participle of impoverish.
- past tense form of impoverish.
impoverished
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Each exemplifies his empathy for people in their day-to-day challenges, but he regarded the last, about Maude Callen, a black nurse-midwife in an impoverished community in South Carolina, as his most rewarding assignment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 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
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
The impoverished Choco region on the Pacific coast also suffered immensely, with some of its remote communities unreachable by authorities to assess the damage.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
At the end of July 1966, Howard Fuller spoke before black residents of Woodland, North Carolina, an isolated and impoverished rural hamlet in the northeastern corner of the state.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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