Both Uses of
impoverish
in
Sense and Sensibility
- To take three thousand pounds from the fortune of their dear little boy would be impoverishing him to the most dreadful degree.†
Chpt 2 *
- Elinor had some difficulty here to refrain from observing, that she thought Fanny might have borne with composure, an acquisition of wealth to her brother, by which neither she nor her child could be possibly impoverished.†
Chpt 41
Definition:
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(impoverish) make someone poorer; or make something less valuable