impoverish 音标拼音: [ɪmp'ɑvrɪʃ]
vt . 使贫穷,使枯竭
使贫穷,使枯竭
impoverish v 1 :
make poor [
ant : {
enrich }]
2 :
take away [
synonym : {
deprive }, {
impoverish }] [
ant : {
enrich }]
Impoverish \
Im *
pov "
er *
ish \,
v .
t . [
imp . &
p .
p . {
Impoverished };
p .
pr . &
vb .
n . {
Impoverishing }.] [
OF .
empovrir ;
pref .
em -
(
L .
in )
povre poor ,
F .
pauvre ;
cf .
OF .
apovrir ,
F .
appauvrir ,
where the prefix is a -,
L .
ad .
Cf . {
Empoverish },
and see {
Poor },
and {-
ish }.]
1 .
To make poor ;
to reduce to poverty or indigence ;
as ,
misfortune and disease impoverish families .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
To exhaust the strength ,
richness ,
or fertility of ;
to make sterile ;
as ,
to impoverish land .
[
1913 Webster ]
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "
impoverish ":
ablate ,
absorb ,
assimilate ,
bankrupt ,
beggar ,
bleed ,
bleed white ,
break ,
burn up ,
bust ,
consume ,
denude ,
deplete ,
deplume ,
despoil ,
digest ,
displume ,
divest ,
drain ,
drain of resources ,
draw ,
draw down ,
dry ,
eat ,
eat up ,
erode ,
exhaust ,
expend ,
finish ,
finish off ,
flay ,
fleece ,
fold up ,
gobble ,
gobble up ,
ingest ,
milk ,
pauper ,
pauperize ,
pick clean ,
pluck ,
reduce ,
ruin ,
scuttle ,
shear ,
sink ,
skin ,
spend ,
squander ,
strip ,
strip bare ,
suck dry ,
swallow ,
swallow up ,
use up ,
waste away ,
wear away
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