verb [VN] (written)
1 to make sb poor:
These changes are likely to impoverish single parent families even further.
2 to make sth worse in quality:
Intensive cultivation has impoverished the soil.
impoverishment noun [U]:
the rapid impoverishment of the people * cultural / spiritual impoverishment
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