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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  • Water scarcity depletes grain, grass, and other plants that cows eat, forcing ranchers to either buy supplemental feed or thin their herds to keep afloat financially.
    — The Week US, TheWeek, 2 Nov. 2026
  • This depletes the number of gamma-ray photons in this signal.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of depletes
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  • This reduces the computing work required to serve identical repository data repeatedly.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2026
  • The iron in lentils can help maintain healthy energy levels by being a component of hemoglobin in red blood cells, which delivers oxygen throughout the body and reduces fatigue.
    — Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of reduces
Verb
  • Memory maintenance consumes computing resources, and excessive information can overwhelm future sessions.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2026
  • In this conception of macroeconomics, the economy consists of a massive input-output table where every cell in the matrix is a sector that consumes other cells’ outputs and provides inputs to other producers.
    — Oliver Melton, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of consumes
Verb
  • Luckily, his ex is kind enough to give him a pep talk before Lee ruins the afternoon for everyone.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Nothing ruins a good time like misplaced sympathy, and siding with the man of the house in a series that’s more rooted in women’s perspectives with each passing season just feels wrong.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of ruins
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  • That pretty much exhausts the points of agreement between the pro- and anti-Proposition 40 camps.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Instead of occupying both sides with large cooling vents, air enters toward the front of the station and exhausts through the rear.
    — Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of exhausts
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  • 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
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  • But if the aircraft also loses access to reliable navigation data, the situation can become considerably more complicated.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Blood sugar can rise again, particularly if someone regains weight or their pancreas loses more of its ability to produce insulin.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of loses
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