impoverished

[US]/ɪm'pɒvərɪʃt/
[UK]/ɪm'pɑvərɪʃt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. lacking wealth or resources, depleted, powerless

Example Sentences

the soil was impoverished by annual burning.

an impoverished speech; a region impoverished by drought.

Ziarat is a rural part of an impoverished province.

They were impoverished by a prolonged spell of unemployment.

impoverished Mexicans who were arrested here by the gross.

These impoverished students endure double pressures of economy and study as the puniness colony.

If the breadwinner deserts the family, it will be left penniless. One who isimpoverished has been reduced to poverty:

According to this condition, some people always take it as a quillet that our country are still too impoverished to appropriate sufficient money to develop education.

Three forces are combining with deadly effect on the Indian Ocean island, which is incalculably rich in wildlife but impoverished in basic infrastructure.

You realize that hip-hop is urban folk art, and as much an indication of the conditions in impoverished areas as bluesman Robert Johnson's laments in the 1930s.

The more impoverished area should note flump fact to develop scientificly more view, regard national level poverty as county of Gansu Province article, realizing its profundity intention in practice.

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