All 7 Uses of
impoverish
in
Strength in What Remains
- It's a landlocked and impoverished country with an agrarian economy that exports excellent coffee and tea and not much else -- a land of dwindling forests that still has lovely rustic landscapes.†
Chpt Intr.
- He had felt puzzled at first at the skinniness of so many of the well-dressed women he saw on the streets and in the apartments of the Upper East Side, a skinniness that would have marked them as impoverished back home.†
Chpt 1.2
- Better, he thought, to be in Burundi, if Burundi were at peace, than to live on the wrong, impoverished planet in New York.
Chpt 1.2 *impoverished = poor
- Deo's family's herd was numerous but didn't yield a great deal of milk, just enough to feed them all and to make butter, with some left over to give away to impoverished neighbors.†
Chpt 1.3
- He told them he was distressed at the great numbers of impoverished children who joined the army at twelve or thirteen, and told them about his campaign to build alternatives in the form of technical schools.†
Chpt 1.7
- A lot about Bujumbura felt familiar, common to the capitals of impoverished countries: the potholes, the dust and noise, the hydrocarbon haze, the close calls between pedestrians and vehicles traveling too fast -- "If you drove like this in the States, you would lose your license," Deo said.†
Chpt 2.13
- Many lost their jobs soon after Ndadaye took power, and the loss of a job often meant rejoining the impoverished masses.†
Chpt 2.13
Definition:
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(impoverish) make someone poorer; or make something less valuable