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impoverishes

verb

present tense third-person singular of impoverish
1
as in beggars

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as in depletes

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impoverishes
  1. bankrupts
  2. depletes
  3. reduces
  4. consumes
  5. ruins
  6. exhausts
  7. squanders
  8. loses
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  • The 2020s have been a decade of compounding American institutional failure — a pandemic, political rupture, an affordability crisis, student loan servicers treated as adversaries, a healthcare system that bankrupts the sick, and a growing sense that the system is not working as advertised.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2026
Definition of bankrupts
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  • Ugg Goldenstar Clog The way the universe works, as soon as an Ugg sensation like the Goldenstar Clog goes on sale, inventory depletes in mere hours.
    — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Deflecting attacks steadily depletes a posture meter underneath the enemy's health bar.
    — Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of depletes
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  • Where appropriate, allowing patients to schedule routine appointments also reduces unnecessary back-and-forth with the practice.
    — Ajay Prasad, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Rather than mine the archive wholesale, Icons reduces recognizable Borgo signatures to their foundations, preserving the rigor while shifting their expression.
    — Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of reduces
Verb
  • Jongmin Lee, a quantum sensing scientist at SNL, has been working to build an extremely small version of this device, one that consumes very little power and can be used in the field.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Throughout our conversation, Angelyne adds ice cubes to the bowl, swirls it with a spoon, and consumes it like gazpacho.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of consumes
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  • Many of them have rides, like the Mexico pavilion’s The Gran Fiesta Tour starring the Three Caballeros, which is inside a replica of that country’s iconic Chichen Itza Mayan ruins.
    — Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026
  • And that’s a bit of a problem, because nothing ruins the allure of the new and novel quite like ubiquity.
    — Byron Hurd, The Drive, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of ruins
Verb
  • If a bureaucratic process exhausts whatever time a citizen has available, then benefits are lost or rights are denied.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2026
  • That’s because even ordinary winds – and far worse, storms and earthquakes – cause tall buildings to sway, which ruins people’s concentration, wrecks their mood, and even exhausts them.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 July 2026
Definition of exhausts
Verb
  • All are standing aside while Stephen Miller squanders whatever standing the Republican Party had left with veterans, frontline civilians and military families.
    — Shawn VanDiver, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Over and over, Levinson squanders opportunities for humanization or interiority in favor of provocation.
    — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 28 May 2026
Definition of squanders
Verb
  • Floor production One of the central themes of Dead Zone discussion, and where some research on it loses some nuance, is that Dead Zone RBs tend to score more total points than late-round backs.
    — Ben Gretch, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The genius of work divided loses none of its luster when the Chinese are participating in the work, not to mention the peaceful implications of market goods easily crossing borders.
    — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of loses
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