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impoverished.

Reduced to poverty.

12 characters4 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ɪmˈpɑvəɹɪʃt/General-American/ɪmˈpɒv(ə)ɹɪʃt/Received-Pronunciation
  1. Reduced to poverty.

  2. Lacking in richness, diversity or health.

    The impoverished soil here can not support any crop.
  3. 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.
  4. Lacking in richness, diversity or health. Represented by few species.

    The fossil record from this era is impoverished.
verb/ɪmˈpɑvəɹɪʃt/General-American/ɪmˈpɒv(ə)ɹɪʃt/Received-Pronunciation
  1. simple past and past participle of impoverish

    form-of · participle · past
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