impoverished
She said the Indian dam project would impoverish millions of the world's poorest people.
Some people argue that multinational companies exploit poor workers abroad and impoverish workers at home by moving capital overseas.
The oboe tends to impoverish the tone of the violins.
This coarseness of imagery is visually impoverishing our towns.

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Deteriorating and making worse
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aggravate
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debase
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deterioration
devaluation
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regress
regression
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regressively
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worse
worsen

Examples of impoverish

impoverish
Then, when the elderly parents became widowed, infirm, or impoverished, they moved into the household of one of their children.
Relatively little is directed vertically from the comfortable citizenry to impoverished and vulnerable groups on the margin.
Virtual worlds have a tendency not only to be impoverished but to be uniform, because this is the easiest thing to do.
It is foreign factory workers who are now exploited and impoverished, for the most part.
An object is impoverished insofar as it is not plentiful.
This dichotomy, however, is too impoverished for a full understanding of the ways processes (and indeed outcomes) may be valued.
But the metropolitanists never mastered the post-depression forces that impoverished the urban core and promoted urban sprawl.
This result is attributed to a normative language system that dichromatic observers developed by learning subtle visual cues to compensate for their impoverished color system.
Many landscapes have been 'dehistoricized', thus impoverishing the living memory of the landscape, anchored in certain places during the long interaction of man and environment.
Many exclusivists are epistemically impoverished, and thus the epistemic status of their exclusive beliefs may well be lessened or defeated by religious diversity.
The core of the overpopulation thesis is that an unequal, impartible inheritance system could have prevented the population from growing, becoming impoverished and emigrating.
Other elderly had no property listed because they were truly impoverished, and this group rarely resided with their children.
His premise, that the loss of a language impoverishes our collective knowledge, is not in fact new.
Without adequate exploratory movements, the global array is impoverished and insufficient for guiding activity.
To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world - in order to set up a shadow world of 'meanings'.
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