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impoverished
[ im-pov-er-isht, -pov-risht ]
adjective
- reduced to poverty.
- (of a country, area, etc.) having few trees, flowers, birds, wild animals, etc.
- deprived of strength, vitality, creativeness, etc.:
an impoverished attempt at humor.
Other Word Forms
- ܲi·DZİ· adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of impoverished1
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Example Sentences
Many hold Hamas responsible for plunging the tiny, impoverished territory into the worst crisis faced by Palestinians in more than 70 years.
Iamaleava quit, then he was canned, and rightfully so, and that’s certainly not the scenario envisioned by all those impoverished college athletic pioneers of years past.
The self-proclaimed prophet claims to have cured people of HIV, made the blind see, changed the fortunes of the impoverished and, on at least one occasion, walked on air.
Don’t we all want better for all people who are this impoverished?
In the meantime, the new administrators warn that the Kennedy Center is impoverished, that the facility has become shoddy and that some of its programming ill serves the American ideal.
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