Verb
To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.
To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land.
Source: Webster's dictionaryYou are not here merely to prepare to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget this errand. Woodrow Wilson
The disappearance of nations would impoverish us no less than if all peoples were made alike, with one character, one face. Nations are the wealth of mankind, they are its generalized personalities: the smallest of them has its own particular colors, and embodies a particular facet of God's design. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state. Xun Zi
She had long ago accepted the fact that, when it came to the affectations with which radical feminists liked to impoverish their minds-crystal therapy, neo-paganism, Wicca-her skepticism placed her emphatically in a minority. James K. Morrow
I'm really interested in this stuff.” Julie rubbed a carton labeled ELEMENTARY PARTICLES. "Physics?” "Physics, biology, stars, everything.” Howard said, "Good for you. These days most people prefer to impoverish their minds with mysticism. James K. Morrow
Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age? Joseph Schumpeter