impoverished.
Reduced to poverty.
Meaning & usage
Reduced to poverty.
Lacking in richness, diversity or health.
The impoverished soil here can not support any crop.
Lacking in richness, diversity or health. Having lost a component, ingredient, faculty or feature; rendered poor in some attribute; depleted.
English has an impoverished inflectional system.
Lacking in richness, diversity or health. Represented by few species.
The fossil record from this era is impoverished.
simple past and past participle of impoverish
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