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impoverisht

impoverisht is the obsolete form of impoverished.

impoverisht is the simple past and past participle of impoverish.

Meaning of impoverished

Adjective

impoverished (comparative more impoverished, superlative most impoverished)

  1. Reduced to poverty.
    Synonyms:
    poor
  2. Lacking in richness, diversity or health.
    • The impoverished soil here can not support any crop.
    1. Having lost a component, ingredient, faculty or feature; rendered poor in some attribute; depleted.
      • English has an impoverished inflectional system.
    2. Represented by few species.
      • The fossil record from this era is impoverished.

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.

Forms of impoverisht

comparativemore impoverisht
superlativemost impoverisht

Questions about impoverisht

What is impoverisht the obsolete form of?
Impoverisht is the obsolete form of impoverished.

Words near impoverisht in the dictionary

  1. impoverishes
  2. impoverisheth
  3. impoverishing
  4. impoverishment
  5. impoverishments
  6. impoverisht
  7. impower
  8. impowered
  9. impowering
  10. impowers
  11. impowre

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Adapted from Wiktionary: impoverisht (page history and authors); impoverished (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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