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impoverish
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  • The second- and third-generation Latinos on the block felt it was their working-class neighborhoods that bore the brunt of a wave of impoverished, unskilled workers.  (source)
    impoverished = poor
  • The Irish and the Italians were peasants, tenant farmers from the impoverished countryside of Europe.  (source)
  • Better, he thought, to be in Burundi, if Burundi were at peace, than to live on the wrong, impoverished planet in New York.  (source)
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  • In this impoverished community of mud and stone huts, both Mortenson's life and the lives of northern Pakistan's children changed course.  (source)
    impoverished = poor
  • As a selfish man will impoverish his family and often bring them to ruin, so a selfish king brings ruin on his people and often plunges them into war.†  (source)
  • The very word want suggests a lack, an impoverishment, and that is what desire is: an impoverishment of the brain, a flaw, a mistake.†  (source)
    impoverishment = the act of making poor; or the state of being poor
  • You'll say again that I'm a reactionist, or some other terrible word; but all the same it does annoy and anger me to see on all sides the impoverishing of the nobility to which I belong, and, in spite of the amalgamation of classes, I'm glad to belong.†  (source)
    impoverishing = making poor
  • For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.†  (source)
    impoverishes = makes poor
  • She had become the woman of impoverished households—strong and hard and rough.  (source)
    impoverished = made poor
  • In England a king hath little more to do than to make war and give away places; which in plain terms, is to impoverish the nation and set it together by the ears.†  (source)
  • The technical revolution that began in the Renaissance led to the spinning jenny and to unemployment, to medicines and new diseases, to the improved efficiency of agriculture and the impoverishment of the environment, to practical appliances such as the washing machine and the refrigerator and pollution and industrial waste.†  (source)
    impoverishment = the act of making poor; or the state of being poor
  • To take three thousand pounds from the fortune of their dear little boy would be impoverishing him to the most dreadful degree.†  (source)
    impoverishing = making poor
  • This impoverishes the rich, suffering no grandeur but its own.†  (source)
    impoverishes = makes poor
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