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empoverish

empoverish is the obsolete spelling of impoverish.

Meaning of impoverish

Verb

impoverish (third-person singular simple present impoverishes, present participle impoverishing, simple past and past participle impoverished)

  1. (transitive) To make poor.
    Antonyms:
    enrich
  2. (transitive) To weaken in quality; to deprive of some strength or richness.
    • That exuberant crop quickly impoverishes any fertile soil.
    Synonyms:
    deplete
  3. (intransitive) To become poor.

Synonyms of empoverish

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Forms of empoverish

third-person singular presentempoverishes
present participleempoverishing
past participleempoverished
pastempoverished

Questions about empoverish

What is empoverish the obsolete spelling of?
Empoverish is the obsolete spelling of impoverish.

Words near empoverish in the dictionary

  1. empory
  2. empose
  3. empousa
  4. empousae
  5. empousas
  6. empoverish
  7. empoverished
  8. empoverishes
  9. empoverishing
  10. empoverisht
  11. empower

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Adapted from Wiktionary: empoverish (page history and authors); impoverish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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