impoverish

impoverish is a 10-letter English word with 4 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families. Face value is 20 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 20 · Words With Friends 22 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.
2. transitive verb. To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land.
3. verb. take away

   Synonyms: deprive

4. verb. make poor

Synonyms

deprive

Common word forms

impoverished, impoverisher, impoverishes, impoverishing, impoverishment

Words from these letters

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