All 10 Uses of
impoverish
in
Three Cups of Tea
- In this impoverished community of mud and stone huts, both Mortenson's life and the lives of northern Pakistan's children changed course.
Chpt Intr. *impoverished = poor
- And as we listened to the Shia children of Korphe, one of the world's most impoverished communities, talk about how their hopes and dreams for the future had grown exponentially since a big American arrived a decade ago to build them the first school their village had ever known, the general and I were done for.†
Chpt Intr.
- But a dollar a day for a teacher, Mortenson fumed, how could a government, even one as impoverished as Pakistan's, not provide that?†
Chpt 3
- And he set himself a task that he described as more difficult than summiting the world's tallest peakābuilding schools for the impoverished Sherpa communities whose porters had made his climb possible.†
Chpt 5
- Haji Ali announced he'd met with the elders of all the Braldu villages and they had selected Pakhora, an especially impoverished community in the Lower Braldu Valley, governed by his close friend Haji Mousin, as their choice for the site of the CAI's second school.†
Chpt 15
- "Twenty minutes down the road, Mortenson saw the spitting image of Yugu's new mosque presiding over the impoverished village of Xurd.†
Chpt 19
- In Pakistan, and other impoverished countries most affected by Wahhabi proselytizing, though, the name has stuck.†
Chpt 19
- Exact numbers are impossible to pin down in such a secretive endeavor, but one of the rare reports to appear in the heavily censored Saudi press hints at the massive change shrewdly invested petroleum profits are having on Pakistan's most impoverished students.†
Chpt 19
- The madrassa system targeted the impoverished students the public system failed.†
Chpt 19
- He spoke about Pakistan's impoverished public schools.†
Chpt 21
Definition:
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(impoverish) make someone poorer; or make something less valuable