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impoverished

adjective

  1. to make poor, deplete
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɑvəɹɪʃt/ / /ɪmˈpɒv(ə)ɹɪʃt/

adj

  1. Reduced to poverty.
  2. 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

  1. simple past and past participle of impoverish