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Impoverishment   /ɪmpˈɑvrɪʃmənt/   Listen
Impoverishment

noun
1.
The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions.  Synonyms: poorness, poverty.
2.
The act of making someone poor.  Synonyms: pauperisation, pauperization.






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"Impoverishment" Quotes from Famous Books



... much more was it so in France and Russia, in all the countries of the Allies, and in Germany and Austria; away into Asia Minor and Egypt, in India and Japan and Italy there was mourning, the world was filled with loss and mourning and impoverishment and distress. ...
— Mr. Britling Sees It Through • H. G. Wells

... the one will apply himself to self-improvement, and, by developing himself, will increase the value of his citizenship to the State; and it is during that prolonged immunity from restraint that the other will compass his own deterioration and exert his influence for the general impoverishment. ...
— Mushrooms on the Moor • Frank Boreham

... Vanbrugh, though decried in his own time by persons of taste far inferior to his own. It was, in Elizabeth's time, an ancient mansion in bad repair, which had long ceased to be honoured with the royal residence, to the great impoverishment of the adjacent village. The inhabitants, however, had made several petitions to the Queen to have the favour of the sovereign's countenance occasionally bestowed upon them; and upon this very business, ostensibly at least, was the noble lord, whom we have already introduced to our readers, ...
— Kenilworth • Sir Walter Scott

... than formerly. The annual value has fallen $126,000,000 in eleven years. The growth of the manufacturing population and the relative decrease of the agricultural population, together with the gradual impoverishment of much of our farm land, will soon make conditions worse unless we organize ...
— A Terminal Market System - New York's Most Urgent Need; Some Observations, Comments, - and Comparisons of European Markets • Mrs. Elmer Black



Words linked to "Impoverishment" :   destitution, financial condition, penury, neediness, pennilessness, impecuniousness, need, pauperism, poorness, wealth, pauperisation, privation, penuriousness, impoverish, indigence, poverty, deprivation, want



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