Definition for IM-POV'ER-ISH

IM-POV'ER-ISH, v.t. [Fr. appauvrir, appauvrissant, from pauvre, poor; It. impoverire. See Poor.]

  1. To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence. Idleness and vice are sure to impoverish individuals and families.
  2. To exhaust strength, richness or fertility; as, to impoverish land by frequent cropping.

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