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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: impoverish (0.00911 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to impoverish.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: impoverish
memiskinkan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: impoverish
impoverish
v 1: make poor [ant:
enrich]
2: take away [syn:
deprive] [ant:
enrich]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Impoverish
Impoverish
\Im*pov"er*ish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Impoverished;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Impoverishing.] [OF. empovrir; pref. em-
(L. in) + povre poor, F. pauvre; cf. OF. apovrir, F.
appauvrir, where the prefix is a-, L. ad. Cf.
Empoverish,
and see
Poor, and
-ish.]
1. To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as,
misfortune and disease impoverish families.
[1913 Webster]
2. To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to
make sterile; as, to impoverish land.
[1913 Webster]
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