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impoverished

Speech parts

1. impoverished - Adjective

2. impoverished - Verb

4. impoverished - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Impoverish

Source: Webster's dictionary

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A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies. Che Guevara

The devils of past religions have always, at least in part, had animal characteristics, evidence of man's constant need to deny that he too is an animal, for to do so would serve a mighty blow to his impoverished ego. Anton LaVey

Of Garrick's death That stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. Samuel Johnson

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine. George Bancroft

During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places. John Pilger

God save us from the enriched poor and from the impoverished rich. Italian Proverb

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