'Impoverished' definitions:
Definition of 'impoverished'
From: WordNet
adjective
Poor enough to need help from others [syn: destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken]
adjective
Destroyed financially; "the broken fortunes of the family" [syn: broken, wiped out(p), impoverished]
Definition of 'Impoverished'
From: GCIDE
- Impoverish \Im*pov"er*ish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Impoverished; p. pr. & vb. n. Impoverishing.] [OF. empovrir; pref. em- (L. in) + povre poor, F. pauvre; cf. OF. apovrir, F. appauvrir, where the prefix is a-, L. ad. Cf. Empoverish, and see Poor, and -ish.]
- 1. To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land. [1913 Webster]