impoverished
Example Sentences
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The changes to this process, like every other computer-wrought change, have both improved and impoverished our lives, made them immeasurably better and immeasurably worse.
These holdings required the intense labor of impoverished farmworkers who were often forced from their traditional lands.
From Los Angeles Times
Reid’s impoverished youth in a tiny hamlet in southern Nevada gave him an iron will, steep ambition and a sizable chip on his shoulder.
Over 250 people have been evacuated after a fire tore through an impoverished town near the famous Gangnam district in southern Seoul on Friday, authorities said.
From Barron's
For a tiny and impoverished island of about 10 million people, Cuba’s security and intelligence structure is enormous—with about 100,000 officers, said García, the former Cuban intelligence agent.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
