impoverished
C1
adj
verb
Freq #27029
Meanings
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1
adj
Having lost a component, an ingredient, a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted.
English has an impoverished inflectional system.
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2
adj
destroyed financially
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3
adj
poor enough to need help from others
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4
adj
Reduced to poverty.
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5
verb
simple past and past participle of impoverish
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impoverishedlyimpoverishednessunimpoverished