impoverishing 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 "impoverishing" in a sentence

1. This impoverishing definition is even easier to discredit than the monetarist description.

2. Indeed, national identities are mostly impoverishing abstractions, clichés, like race, class, and other ideological creations.

3. The government is also accused of impoverishing the working class with regressive tax codes which forced the poor to pay a higher proportion of their income as tax.

4. If global warming really is the catastrophe the alarmists claim, the least they can do for its victims is not to patronize them while impoverishing them in the bargain.

5. It produces intelligence, but it produces idiocy and cretinism for the worker.' Frankenstein's invention is thus a pregnant metaphor of the process of capitalist production, which forms by deforming, civilizes by Barbarizing, enriches by impoverishing -- a two-sided process in …

6. Darse aires (de grandeza) At the dinner table my father would go on and on, showing off, aggrandizing himself Nothing is easier than to pervert the government's powers into instruments to Aggrandize and enrich one or more interests by oppressing and impoverishing the others Gerard tended to Aggrandize these youthful