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To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.

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  1. v. t. To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.
  2. v. t. To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land.
  3. v. make poor
  4. v. become poorer
  5. 1. To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families. 2. To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land.