impoverishment

impoverished | American Dictionary

impoverished
adjective
us/ɪmˈpɑv·ər·ɪʃt/
extremely poor:
an impoverished family

Examples of impoverished

impoverished
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.
The locality has a resident population of approximately 81 000, many of whom live in impoverished inner city neighbourhoods.
An object is impoverished insofar as it is not plentiful.
The fact is that the daily lives of these materially impoverished workers is mediated through with their religious practices and thus reinforces their religious convictions.
He objects to the "impoverished theoretical agenda" within which we place our review, but does not outline a coherent alternative.
Generally, they have migrated from the impoverished rural regions and consequently possess low levels of education and minimal skills.
The inability of commissioners to raise money to sewer impoverished areas was not just a hypothetical issue.
Our model uses a very impoverished picture of intracor tical connections, assuming these depend only on horizontal separation, are isotropic, and are unchanging during development.
All villages were in rural and impoverished environments, there was neither on-site electricity nor functional community-based sanitation facilities.
Many exclusivists are epistemically impoverished, and thus the epistemic status of their exclusive beliefs may well be lessened or defeated by religious diversity.
What these claims mean is that a child's phonological representation apparatus is initially highly impoverished and is enriched over the course of acquisition.
Ironically, as the living landscape is being impoverished, its prehistoric past is preserved in books, archives, and museums.
Although the species is not widely considered to be endangered, southern populations are likely to be genetically impoverished as a result of their recent history.
Indeed, many such communities may be inherently too intellectually impoverished and vulnerable even to be socially cognizant of the possibility of being entitled to protections.
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