(v. t.) To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.
(v. t.) To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land.
Example Sentences:
(1) Slight but significant shortening of the latency of initial positivity in the evoked potential was observed after rearing in the enriched condition as compared to the data obtained from the littermates that were reared in the standard or impoverished conditions.
(2) The Saudi-led war in Yemen launched in March – against Houthi rebels who the Saudis insist are backed by Iran – has diverted resources and underlined the priority being given to the Gulf’s unstable and impoverished backyard.
(3) The majority of these cases of incest occur in an impoverished atmosphere, both on psychological and social levels.
(4) Her ability to estimate time intervals and general time perspective was constrained by her impoverished store of knowledge for personal experiences.
(5) Although the relevant knowledge base is still impoverished, the time may be appropriate to attempt to develop and investigate formal models of cognitive aging that incorporate explicit mechanisms to account for age differences frequently observed in measures of cognitive functioning.
(6) It has proposed linking repayment of the debt to growth (the only real way of paying creditors and of guaranteeing their rights), and has indicated its desire to implement those structural reforms needed to strengthen an impoverished state left too long in the hands of corrupt elites.
(7) But for others, the couple are social revolutionaries in this impoverished, landlocked nation that usually makes headlines only when someone like Madonna flies in.
(8) This group is associated with impoverished environments, inadequate financial and social resources, family dysfunction, exposure to violent abuse and neglect, genetic loading for psychiatric disorder, and parental criminality.
(9) This is an important agreement and it’s an agreement which indicates Cambodia’s readiness to be a good international citizen.” Under the deal, signed by previous immigration minister Scott Morrison and Cambodia’s interior minister Sar Kheng last September, Australia promised an additional $40m in aid to the impoverished south-east Asian country as well as $15.5m in resettlement , housing, education and integration costs for the refugees.
(10) At a recent rally in Dresden, Bachmann’s hometown, he told his followers that while asylum seekers enjoyed luxury accommodation, many impoverished German pensioners were “unable to even afford a single slice of Stollen” (German Christmas cake).
(11) Nestlé and the other water giants, Coca-Cola and Pepsi, have often cut deals with relatively isolated, impoverished rural communities whereby they take a percentage of the local water supply, paying enough to keep municipal rates low for local residents.
(12) Today, the national family is celebrating, and that very much includes those in this house.” Kaufman was an industrious constituency MP, holding roving surgeries around east Manchester every week and writing several forests worth of letters each year on behalf of his largely impoverished constituents.
(13) Sometimes they come even though they know someone in the same area, just down the street, has been shot.” She attributes this to a “continuous engagement with the workers and constant direction with local government officials”, while others at the centre point out that even though the money the workers receive is only 500 rupees (about £3) a day, for impoverished inhabitants of Karachi, it is too good a wage to pass up – whatever the risk.
(14) If any of them is neglected or isolated from the rest, the whole will be impoverished-the student will suffocate in disconnected, empirical facts; fanciful theories will be spun from tenuous evidence; well established theory will be neglected by the practitioner; the best-intentioned schemes will have disastrous long-term consequences.
(15) This study shows the variations in nursing care which a group of high-risk, severely impoverished, uninsured children require.
(16) The dusty and impoverished town has few signs of diamond wealth, and the word is that its senior baron recently fled to Maputo to evade Zimbabwe's secret police.
(17) Six years later, as the cultural revolution wreaked havoc, young Xi was dispatched to the dusty, impoverished north-western province of Shaanxi to "learn from the masses".
(18) Apple’s Irish offices are based near Knocknaheeny, an impoverished northern suburb of Cork.
(19) The key distance effect reported in the literature did not occur in the tasks of this investigation (Studies 1 and 3), and it may be apparent only for melodies shorter or more impoverished than those used here.
(20) Not one pound is getting through to elderly and frail people in our homes … It needs to get through to people who need it.” On the council tax precept , he added: “In northern constituencies they just won’t be able to raise the money, these are impoverished places like Knowsley or Birkenhead, where I am from.
Penniless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of money; impecunious; poor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Katie has her benefits frozen, leaving her penniless, while Daniel, a man whose doctor says he is too ill to work, has to spend 35 hours a week applying for jobs he can’t take, on the orders of the jobcentre “work coach”.
(2) He’s living with his sister in the capital, Tegucigalpa, jobless and penniless, grieving the loss of his kids.
(3) The Mrs Brawne role is quiet, but has the visceral quality that marks Fox's best work; she is a widow, trying to negotiate her daughter's passion for the penniless Keats and the pressing financial need for her to marry well.
(4) Her case for judicial review claims that the actions of Balls, Ofsted and Haringey were unfair and in breach of natural justice, and have left her penniless and practically unemployable.
(5) Before this we’d won nothing for years.” The government’s volte-face means that tens of thousands of the very poorest households on the brink of catastrophe – victims of domestic violence or flooding, homelessness, or those made penniless by sudden financial crises – will in theory still be able to turn to the state, rather than the loan shark, for “last resort” help.
(6) This has left some claimants penniless, stressed, forced to borrow cash to pay rent or utility bills and struggling to buy food.
(7) Scot Young, 51, has told judges he is penniless and bankrupt, a victim of financial meltdown and hopelessly insolvent.
(8) Ted Cruz, also the son of a Cuban immigrant, said his father “came to Austin penniless, seeking freedom.
(9) By imposing rigid economic dogma on its borrowers, the IMF has imposed austerity and de-development on hundreds of millions of the world's poorest people: prising open food markets of the world's poorest countries to put penniless peasants in direct competition with subsidised producers of wheat, rice, cotton, sugar, beef, butter and other commodities in the USA and the EU, undermining fragile rural economies and livelihoods.
(10) I lost my friends, my business, my home and I am penniless.
(11) Shoesmith is claiming that the actions of Balls, Ofsted and Haringey council were "unfair" and in breach of natural justice, and have left her penniless and practically unemployable.
(12) Laura aka SheIsMe As a penniless teenager in 1990s Belfast, the non-appearance of my period was a rite of passage I'd have happily skipped.
(13) There are outliers in the discourse, but asylum seekers are condemned by some as “vermin” and “ like cockroaches ”, or sneered at as “filthy”, “grubby” or “penniless”.
(14) For most of her 20s, she worked on McLibel - an epic, low-budget documentary about McDonald's hamfisted attempt to sue two penniless activists who defended themselves in the high court in the longest civil case in English history.
(15) Veronica laid low for a while until, penniless and with no education, she returned to prostitution, though at least she was keeping her earnings.
(16) The odds against being on a plane with two bombs on it are 50bn to one.” Emma Fisher Bath • Rodney Mace has learned that it’s the penniless immigrants ruining our living standards ( Letters , 12 August)?
(17) Now Philip Hammond tells us it’s all those penniless immigrants fleeing oppression and poverty.
(18) Young, 51, has told judges he is penniless and bankrupt, a victim of financial meltdown whose debts add up to £28m.
(19) Sentencing him to prison, the judge said: "The husband says he is penniless and bankrupt.
(20) Mooney had just agreed to sell the property for £46,000 but now fears he will be left homeless and penniless if insurers refuse to pay up.