IMPOVERISH meaning: Make poor; reduce wealth significantly

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impoverish: Merriam-Webster
impoverish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
impoverish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
impoverish: Collins English Dictionary
impoverish: Vocabulary.com
impoverish: Wordnik
impoverish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
impoverish: Wiktionary
impoverish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
impoverish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
impoverish: Infoplease Dictionary
Impoverish, impoverish: Dictionary.com
Impoverish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
impoverish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
impoverish: Rhymezone
Impoverish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
impoverish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
impoverish: FreeDictionary.org
impoverish: Mnemonic Dictionary
impoverish: TheFreeDictionary.com
impoverish: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To make poor.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To weaken in quality; to deprive of some strength or richness.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To become poor.

Opposite:

enrich, prosper, thrive, flourish, abound

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beggar, destitute, pauperize, penalize, more...

Colors:

gray, brown, beige, taupe, charcoal, more...

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