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IMPOVERISH

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Dictionary entry overview: What does impoverish mean?

• IMPOVERISH (verb)
The verb IMPOVERISH has 2 senses:

1. make poor
2. take away

Familiarity information: IMPOVERISH used as a verb is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• IMPOVERISH (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Make poor

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "impoverish" is one way to...):

deprive (keep from having, keeping, or obtaining)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "impoverish"):

reduce (lessen and make more modest)

beggar; pauperise; pauperize (reduce to beggary)

bankrupt; break; ruin; smash (reduce to bankruptcy)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Antonym:

enrich (make wealthy or richer)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Take away

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

impoverish; deprive

Hypernyms (to "impoverish" is one way to...):

decline; worsen (grow worse)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "impoverish"):

disestablish (deprive (an established church) of its status)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody of something

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