impoverishes in English

verb

1

make (a person or area) poor.

they discourage investment and impoverish their people

synonyms: make poor, make penniless, reduce to penury, bankrupt, beggar, ruin, bring to ruin, make insolvent, pauperize

verb

make poor, make penniless, reduce to penury, bankrupt, beggar, ruin, bring to ruin, make insolvent, pauperize
weaken, sap, exhaust, deplete, enervate, bleed
deprive

Use "impoverishes" in a sentence

1. Continuous farming impoverishes the soil.

2. Exclusion impoverishes; accepting others despite their differences enriches.

3. 24 Lastly it impoverishes our productivity in quality while increasing it in quantity.

4. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some.

5. Stable environment Morris's third objection to 'pedantic reconstruction' was that the Accretions collected by buildings over succeeding generations are in effect a record of history, and their destruction impoverishes the present because it suppresses