impoverishes

verb

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

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2
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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  • On months-long thru-hikes, nutrition becomes a real concern as the body depletes its stores, and a multivitamin cannot replace a balanced diet.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 13 July 2026
  • Every dollar of capital reduction at a large bank increases, at the margin, the probability that a stress event depletes the DIF and reaches the public balance sheet.
    — Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
Definition of depletes
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  • Aiir’s software reduces that workload by scanning inspection footage before presenting possible findings to the technician.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 15 July 2026
  • Palliative care reduces disease symptoms and the burdens on caregivers.
    — Jane Callahan, The Conversation, 14 July 2026
Definition of reduces
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  • Clinical judgment will continue to be exercised, just freed from the administrative burden that consumes most of the day.
    — Adam Farren, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • If the human body has a limited energy budget, trade-offs will naturally arise when one biological process consumes more than its typical share.
    — Rachel Nuwer, Quanta Magazine, 17 July 2026
Definition of consumes
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  • Nothing ruins a great outfit like unsightly clothing wrinkles and stubborn creases.
    — Kyra Surgent, InStyle, 18 July 2026
  • Then, the adults in the family attend a concert in the Borgholm Castle ruins.
    — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 16 July 2026
Definition of ruins
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  • Watching this scene, and much of the film, exhausts me.
    — Jenny Odell, Longreads, 2 June 2026
  • If the search for a large outdoor planter exhausts you—just get a terra-cotta planter.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 6 Apr. 2026
Definition of exhausts
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  • Over and over, Levinson squanders opportunities for humanization or interiority in favor of provocation.
    — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 28 May 2026
  • Trapping individuals in endless cycles of exclusion and financial hardship squanders potential, reduces tax revenue and widens disparities.
    — Brian Fabes, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
Definition of squanders
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  • An invoice exception can sit unresolved because the right person was never notified, while finance loses days reconciling data before close.
    — Robert Kramer, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • The deeper the water, the sooner a vehicle loses traction on the road.
    — CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 15 July 2026
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