impoverished
adjective
- to make poor, deplete
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɑvəɹɪʃt/ / /ɪmˈpɒv(ə)ɹɪʃt/
adj
- Reduced to poverty.
- Having lost a component, an ingredient, a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted.
“English has an impoverished inflectional system.”
“[I]t was out of print for 28 years, before an edition (now rare) was published in 1960, impoverished by having all citations removed.”
verb
- simple past and past participle of impoverish