impoverishes

Definition of impoverishesnext
present tense third-person singular of impoverish

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impoverishes
Verb
  • The degenerative and incurable disease, which also is known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, depletes and destroys the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, eventually causing paralysis.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Literally paying their tax bills is going to drain corporate bank accounts, which further depletes bank reserves from the system.
    Kelly Evans, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • Demand for memory chips has also been surging as the AI data center buildout consumes much of the high-bandwidth memory on the market.
    Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2026
  • An average American man consumes about 100 grams of protein per day.
    Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • This enables continuous charging and reduces the need for large onboard batteries.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2025
  • As a stocky playmaker who rarely sprints and often reduces the game to walking pace in an increasingly breakneck sport populated by iron men, Cherki’s timing of arrival into English football is where the dichotomy lies.
    Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The denial exhausts the city’s legal options for the 2022 ballot measure, known as Measure C.
    Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Ella has shades of Holly Hunter's intense, workaholic producer Jane from Brooks' 1987 masterpiece Broadcast News, the smartest person in any room who both exhausts and enchants everyone around her.
    Esther Zuckerman, Time, 12 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • What would be the point in merely listening to people look at legendary mountain views and Incan ruins?
    Ryan Knighton, AFAR Media, 31 Oct. 2025
  • There are heated confrontations and a slap, and Alma ruins her shot at tenure after stealing a colleague's prescription pad to get more pain meds.
    Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Instead, the movie squanders Knight’s talent for delivery and hands him an awkward slapstick bit that feels like work just to watch.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Either the Broncos offense wakes up, or this team squanders all of the goodwill from beating the Eagles last week.
    Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The deeper the water, the sooner a vehicle loses traction on the road.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 10 Nov. 2025
  • However, each conversion step consumes energy, introduces delay, and loses some of the information carried by the original signal.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The Cowboys have mastered the art of entertaining and interesting better than any sports franchise in the world, but there is a redundancy that to the person who spends a lot of their money on it is justifiably checked out.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Browns Cleveland boasts an elite defense led by the league’s best pass rusher, an owner who spends more cash than any other team and a promising nucleus from the 2025 draft class.
    Jacob Robinson, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
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“Impoverishes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impoverishes. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.

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