Both Uses of
impoverish
in
War and Peace
- Country neighbors from Otradnoe, impoverished old squires and their daughters, Peronskaya a maid of honor, Pierre Bezukhov, and the son of their district postmaster who had obtained a post in Petersburg.†
Chpt 6 *
- During that twenty-year period an immense number of fields were left untilled, houses were burned, trade changed its direction, millions of men migrated, were impoverished, or were enriched, and millions of Christian men professing the law of love of their fellows slew one another.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
-
(impoverish) make someone poorer; or make something less valuable