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impoverished

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verb

past tense of impoverish

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of impoverished
Verb
These organizations primarily serve impoverished people with complex medical conditions who are eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare. Felice J. Freyer, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025 While the coast of Mississippi rebuilt, investing in tourist attractions like casinos, progress in New Orleans — particularly its impoverished Ninth Ward, where the levees broke — stagnated. Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025 Trump should provide better education, housing, jobs and health care to impoverished communities. Willie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025 Murral’s life began in Forest, a small, impoverished town in Mississippi aptly named; there were, and still are, more trees than people there. Sarah Rex, JSTOR Daily, 20 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for impoverished
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impoverished
Adjective
  • But prorating three years of player profits down to 12 months, as UEFA’s rule does, reduces the immediate efficacy of successful trading in the market, the very strategy that poorer clubs increasingly rely on to climb the ladder.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Like most extended car warranty providers, CarShield excludes pre-existing conditions that existed before your warranty took effect, as well as damage resulting from poor maintenance, neglect or intentional abuse.
    Brian Sloan, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Silksong is steeped in religious imagery — desolate chapels, ringing church bells, even rosary beads that act as in-game currency.
    Keller Gordon, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Her haunting soprano ranged from desolate whispers to expansive belts.
    Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The paradox of partnership Relationships often function like one-way life rafts, keeping men afloat while leaving women depleted.
    Vanessa Bennett, SELF, 10 Sep. 2025
  • In those other games, each fighter has their own health gauge that must be depleted for the match to end, and there are no additional rounds.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • If it’s not broke, don’t fix it As one social media user said, bullying works.
    Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
  • She had been laid off from her job at Whole Foods in July 2005 and was practically broke when Katrina hit.
    Curtis Bunn, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The local Rite Aid was getting ready to shut down, with barren shelves and 75% off all items, while commerce elsewhere in the town of less than 3,000 people wasn’t exactly bustling.
    David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • While flying a shuttlecraft, she gets sucked into a wormhole and crashes onto a barren moon.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • To him, the field looked ruined — nothing like the stiff, proud stalks of wheat growing nearby.
    Julia Rendleman, ProPublica, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Our family has been ruined by Denise's lies of promising to end a year-long affair.
    Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • With all other options seemingly exhausted, Una and Spock decide to take another path by getting in touch with their crewmates’ katras, roughly the Vulcan term for the soul, though the Vulcans would probably not want to use that term.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The group exhausted legal remedies after a February 2025 Kentucky Supreme Court ruling that upheld a 2021 Metro Council vote to strip the building of its local landmark status, clearing the way for demolition.
    Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Matters only got more bleak in the sixth, when Rushing fouled a ball off his right shin, smoking a ball right above where his guard ended and immediately going down in pain.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The one constant is the unhappy couple’s bleak surroundings.
    Adam Solomons, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Impoverished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impoverished. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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